Waialea Bay Data Download on 5/13/2020

5/13/2020

Laura Jim, Sihkea Jim and Marc Rice went down to Waialea Bay this morning to retrieve and replace the Temperature / Salinity Hobo data loggers.  The weather was sunny and calm with a 2' swell coming in occasionally.  The water was somewhat turbid with visability running around 20'.  We were able to locate and remove all three data loggers from their cases.  The data loggers were taken back to the car, data was downloaded and the loggers were cleared and restarted.  They were then placed back in their carriers at the three offshore stations.  Data was obtained from stations 1 and 2 but the data logger at station 3 would not "wake up" so we did not get that data (if there is any) downloaded.
Below are the data sets for stations 1 and 2 with the temp and salinity statistics in the lower right of each figure.

Figure 1.  Temperature and salinity measurements at Station 1 for the period from 2/24/2020 to 5/13/2020.

Figure 2.  Temperature and salinity measurements at Station 2 for the period from 2/24/2020 to 5/13/2020.

Some images from todays data logger retrieval work today.  

 Confusing messages from the State!  Waialea is both open and closed!

The north side of Waialea Bay where station 1 is located.

Opening the logger carrying case and retrieving the data logger for data download.

Laura and Sihkea on the surface at station 1.

Laura retrieves the data logger from station 3.

Data logger from station 3.

Recording the serial number of the data logger from station 3.

All finished... data loggers retrieved, downloaded and replaced.

While the data downloads were occurring Laura Jim took pictures of the small Pocillopora sp. colonies that she found in the vicinity of stations 3.  They don't look great but they are surviving.