Survey of water and sediment quarity, plankton of area from Sendai Bay to Shizugawa Bay

Fiscal Year

2012

Title

Survey of water and sediment quarity, plankton of area from Sendai Bay to Shizugawa Bay

Project and Theme

Project 1. Study on ecological succession of fisheries ground
Representative Organization: Tohoku University
(Jan. - Mar.) Theme1. Environmental monitoring in coastal sea areas of Miyagi Prefecture
Representative personYoshinari Endo
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Research Information

Period and Interval
2012/07/01 - 2013/03/31
Four times a year
Research Area
Sendai Bay, Shizugawa Bay, Kesennuma Bay
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Category
Field survey
Overview
To understand impacts of the Tsunami on environments of fishing grounds (water and sedimetnt quality, and so on), the environments are monitored at fixed points of area from Sendai Bay to Shizugawa Bay (included Kesennuma Bay) four times a year.

Investigation Item and Data Acquisition

Investigation ItemData Acquisition
Water qualityTemperature, Salinity, DO, Nutrient, Toxic substance (COD, Oil, Cadmium, Mercury, Lead, PCB, Hydrogen sulfide, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, Dioxin
Sediment qualityGrain size composition, COD, Toxic substance (TS, Cadmium, Chromium, Mercury, Organic phosphorus, PCB, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, Nickel, Ignition loss)
PlanktonDistribution and species composition
MacrobenthosDistribution and species composition

Person in charge of Investigation

Representative personKenji Kaneko
OrganizationTohoku University
DepartmentGraduate School of Agricultural Science

Keywords

Fiscal Year2012
OrganizationTohoku University
CategoryField survey
Research AreaSouth Sanriku
DisciplineOcean physics -> Water temperature
Ocean physics -> Salinity
Ocean physics -> Transparency / Turbidity
Ocean chemistry -> Dissolved oxygen
Ocean chemistry -> Nutrients
Ocean environment -> Chemical oxygen demand (COD)
Ocean environment -> Nutrients
Ocean environment -> Plant pigments
Ocean environment -> Heavy metals
Ocean environment -> Oil
Ocean environment -> Transparency
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Arthropods
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Mollusks
Ocean biology / Ocean ecology -> Plankton