Benthic Ecology of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts      In 1955 Howard L. Sanders sampled the benthic ecology of Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.  Following that he worked in Long Island Sound.  In 1980 to 1982 Long Island Sound was re-sampled (Pellegrino and Hubbard ,1983).  In 2011 a comparative re-sampling of the Sanders stations  in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts (Sanders, 1958), was initiated by the Coastal America Foundation .  This benthic community structure inventory is being conducted in association with the Foundation's Buzzards Bay Oceanographic Project which includes temperature/water quality data logging stations and related climate change benchmarking. It it the intention of the CAF Buzzards Bay Oceanographic Project to re-sample the Sanders benthic stations during the 5 year project period.  Completion of this effort is contingent upon funding. During 2010 researchers from the Coastal America Foundation obtained the raw data records with the support of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute library team  (WHOI Data, 1956).  The upper sampling stations were re-occupied in fall of 2011 to mimic the original October sampling cruises of Howard  Sanders.  The original 1955/56 sampler was a modified Forster anchor dredge, the 2011 sampling was conducted with a VanVeen grab for better spatial accuracy and a slightly deeper penetration.  Both were processed with a 500 micron seive.   The results will be available below as the draft laboratory data is produced.  The original Sanders paper is also posted below. WHOI Data:  Papers of Howard L. Sanders, 1956-1996, MC-42, "Buzzards Bay, 1956."  Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution." file:///C:/ead/EADFiles/completed%20EAD/MC-42brief_Sanders.html Howard L. Sanders 1958 paper in Limnology and Oceanography Upper Buzzards Bay Stations Howard L. Sanders Stations Revisited 2011 Benthic ID Results Station A 2011 Station A Replicate 1 Station B Replicate #1 Station B 2011