It is always cool to see something you haven't seen before. But it is especially cool when this thing happens to correspond with your science. In a paper by Weider et al. (2009), "Long-term changes in metapopulation structure: a quarter-century retrospective study on low-Arctic rock pool Daphnia", increasing salinity on the Churchill rock bluffs is discussed. In relation to that I had heard, many times, about a storm in 2006 that inundated the bluff pools with saline seawater at high tide.
Well we didn't have a storm quite like that but with wind from the north gusting up to 80 km/h, we came a little bit closer.
Below is a picture of the sea spray on bluff D from one of the windiest and most turbulent days on the bay from last year:
Pretty impressive right? You can probably just picture the zooplankton dispersing and the saltiness of the pools increasing!
Ok, but now check out the surf from Aug.5, 2010 (thanks to Leah for these pictures!):
Just another WOW moment in science!
In other news, we finally took that rusty barrell out of one of the ponds on bluff D!
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