Water Quality Data  from  Coastal America Foundation Ongoing Research Temperature, Lumens and Salinity  in  Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts Sias Point Data Plot - 2011 Temperature every 15 minutes Sias Point 2011 Raw Data Sias Point - Buzzards Bay MA Station Location Phinney's Harbor Station Phinney's Harbor 2011 Temperature Graph Phinney's Harbor Raw Data 2011 Dry Ledge Station Dry Ledge temperature graph 2011 Dry Ledge all temperature data 2011 All data - Sanders East Bottom Station Sanders East Bottom Station Data Sanders East Data Station Salinity Data (PSS) Sanders East Station 2011 Bottom Deployed all 2011 Temperature data graphed for Buzzards Bay Sanders West Bottom Station All data csv Sanders West station 2011 Sanders West Station Location Salinity (PSS) Sanders West all data - Bottom Deployed HOBO Data Logger Data loggers have been deployed at 5 stations in upper Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts beginning in 2010 with 4 data loggers at 2 stations and continuing in 2011 with 14 Temperature and lumen data loggers at 5 stations (including redundant deployments at the benthic boundary layer and surface depths).  Salinity dataloggers were also deployed in 2011 at 2 stations (bottom deployment). Specifications for these HOBO dataloggers can be found at: http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/dataloggers/ua-002-64 and  http://www.onsetcomp.com/products/datalogger/conductivity-and-salinity or click on the icon to the left.    Data files are being generated for temperature, salinity and lumens in upper Buzzards Bay throughout the summer maximums to examine climate change trends.  This effort of the Coastal America Foundation is being correlated with a re-visit of Howard Sanders 1955 benthic community analyses and other marine research underway. Date from 2011 are presented above, including two salinity loggers.  The data files for 2012 will be available soon.  The 2010 files from our SAVEDOER and eelgrass investigations are in the file to the right. Data Logger in protective cage. These dataloggers are accurate and log every 15 minutes.  The Coastal America Foundation maintains them by occasionally checking and cleaning and the lumen spikes indicate the sample logged may have occurred during station maintenance on-board the research vessel deck (always daylight maintenance so light spikes are prevalent and will be filtered out of the final data set). More data files will be uploaded in August 2011. Data is offloaded onto a portable waterproof shuttle. HOBO Downloading Data Video Datalogger at sea