The four main basins of Long Island Sound, with low oxygen conditions
for August 2002. Oxygen data from CT DEP, LIS Water
Quality Monitoring Program; Atmosphere
and hypoxia 
GSA Annual Meeting, Abstracts, 34 (6): 384.
BENTHIC FORAMINIFERA IN
LONG ISLAND SOUND
AS INDICATORS OF EUTROPHICATION
Irina Abramson1, 2; Ellen Thomas1, Joop Varekamp 1, and Marilyn Buchholtz ten Brink2
1. Wesleyan University, Middletown CT
2. USGS, Woods Hole, MA
The most common foraminifera in Long Island Sound are:
The four main basins of Long Island Sound, with low oxygen conditions
for August 2002. Oxygen data from CT DEP, LIS Water
Quality Monitoring Program; Atmosphere
and hypoxia
|
Core Station |
|
Water Depth (m) |
Latitude (decimal degrees) |
Longitude (decimal degrees) |
|
WLIS 75 |
|
|
40.878080 |
73.74660 |
|
WLIS 68 |
|
|
40.866020 |
73.66458 |
|
A1C1 |
Western LIS |
|
41.098880 |
73.331728 |
|
A4C1 |
|
25.0 |
41.033047 |
73.287978 |
|
B1C5 |
|
|
41.168760 |
73.074953 |
|
B5C1 |
|
|
41.073577 |
73.042983 |
|
B7C1 |
|
|
41.012753 |
73.030232 |
|
D3C2 |
|
|
41.198407 |
72.847157 |
|
G1C1 |
|
|
41.270000 |
72.407167 |
Relative abundances of foraminifera in 2 cores in western LIS:
Recently increasing relative abundance of Ammonia
beccarii:
