Japanese eelgrass at Padilla Bay (underwater sound)
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Common Name: Japanese Eelgrass
Scientific Name: Zostera japonica
Date: 2014-07-12
Time: 11:05AM
Creator: Rice, Jeff
Description: The underwater sound of a species of eelgrass
Notes: A hydrophone captures the sound of oxygen bubbling from eelgrass (Z. japonica) leaves as the plant absorbs and photosynthesizes the sun's rays. Eelgrass was in less than a foot of water. Walked/waded several hundred yards to a patch of eelgrass as the tide was going out. The hydrophone rested on the mud below the water amidst the eelgrass. Weather conditions: Air temp 75 degrees Fahrenheit; Humidity 56%; Wind 0-2 mph; skies sunny with light clouds; see also http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=pbfw1
Location: Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (Wash.); Mount Vernon (Wash.); Sakgit County (Wash.); Washington (State)
Recording Equipment: Sound Devices 722 recorder with Aquarian H2A hydrophone
Duration: 00:05:01
Acknowledgments: Si Simenstad, Ron Thom, Katie Harrington and the staff of the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve provided advice for this recording.
Audio Rights: Audio file copyright Jeff Rice and Montana State University; Use of this audio file is allowed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
Image Rights: By Benjamin Cody (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
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