This past Saturday was day one for our group! The day started out a bit later than usual but once we were all assembled there was no holding us back! We begin the morning out at the middle beach where we collected 6 or 7 buckets of oyster shells to take out to the restoration site to have ready for the benthic group. From there we headed over to the GTMNERR, unfortunately we ended up having to make two trips out to the site due to all the materials, but the ride there and back for Dr. Smith, Jon and I wasn't to bad. Once we finally were all able to get out to the site, we hit the ground running.... well kind of, by the time all the materials and people were on site and ready to work it was super hot!! But we didn't try to let that bother us, Jon and I got right in to collect water for the turbidity and water quality test. After that, the seine nets were dragged and the fishes were caught, counted and measured at different sites within the oyster reef restoration site as well as outside the reef; all in an effort to determine the diversity of fish species. Due to time and the slight effects of heat exhaustion we had to cut the sampling a bit shorter than we had thought, however we felt what we collected was sufficient. Overall, the day was pretty good and a great team effort!
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