Collecting Seaweed Samples

Today was the first day that @rongoa and I went collecting seaweed samples for DNA sampling and also to add to collections at various places. We had planned on getting a sample or certain target species that had been requested, photographing them, then removing them, bagging them in numbered bags and filling the bags with sea water then taking a photograph of the bag and the number. Well that was the plan.

It worked well for the first three then we found an area that had 4 of our target species in one place, so I photographed all of them, removed them and gave them to @rongoa who bagged them then photographed them. Then we moved on and found others in different areas.

We then discovered when it came time to carry all of the bags up the cliff how heavy they were! Will have to use a back pack the next time we do this!

Then when I got home and trying to match the photos with the bags for the ones that were not done in sequence was a mission!

We are now going to re-think our collection method so we don't have heavy bags to carry up a cliff and I can easily match all of the seris of photos :)

Here they all are :D

Posted on September 16, 2016 11:00 AM by tangatawhenua