E2 West Transect – 2016

Permanent Site: E2 West Transect; Depth: 14.6 Meters (47.8 Feet); Distance from river mouth: 0.9 Kilometers (0.5 Miles) east; Pre/Post Dam Removal: 5 years post-dam removal; Lat/Long: 48.15653002, -123.56197605; Site Description: This is one of our deeper sites. Substrate is mainly gravel/cobble with scattered boulders. A few small red and brown seaweeds, mainly acid kelp Desmarestia spp. (0:25, 0:47 seconds) have returned. The featherduster tubes worm Schizobranchia insignis is abundant. Red sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus franciscanus) are scattered along entire transect (0:28, 1:22, 1:34 seconds). Others invertebrates seen on video: staghorn bryozoan Heteropora pacifica (yellow clump on boulder at 0:59 seconds).