drove around Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade in baykeeper truck, 95 degrees
compare nitrogen presence to where water will be in column/evenness of distribution in water column: will sampling at 0.5m represent total nitrogen/be used to approximate total nitrogen? (useful to think of total nitrogen in water column?)
-- doppler current profiler: 1m binning of water column, usually ~3 major layers w/ different velocities
FoCB boat or kayak to drop off/pick up drifters?: both, maybe, depending on duration
drifter study of multiple tidal cycles is useful.
nitrogen is also good, but samples won't last more than a day
==> solution: at 6/12 hour intervals, switch out internal niskin bucket on drifter and replace it, "continuous" drift study
FoCB boat: water report every few weeks, with volunteers: Mike to arrange for Turner to come on next outing
use machine learning to improve Ernie's model by using drifter runs (stats: change to only be significant/within certainty?)
workspace for fabricating drifter:
-- Brian @ SMCC?
-- GMRI ? (good location, parking, facilities): ask Nick if any connections
-- Curtis?
people:
Brian Tarbox: smaller drifters, launched off dock
--has boat? might help drop/pick up drifters if teaching class?
-- has lab space for fabrication?
Jim Manning: bigger, open water drifters
Ernie True: physics model for Casco Bay, noted influx to Back Cove?
-- compare Ernie's model to statistically significant drifter runs
Curtis (estuary partnership) is a statistics guy: might have space?
-- ask about statistics/uncertainty of design/data collection
drove around Fort Allen Park and Eastern Promenade in baykeeper truck, 95 degrees
people: