Benthic Ecology

VIMS BENTHIC ECOLOGY

PlowingProfile Camera (BCD sled, or SPI Plow) Image of the system.	Click on the picture to view an image mosaic from the plowing profile camera	Other Links (NIH Image, Mathematica, SAS)
Time-LapseSPI (Sediment Profile Imagery) in the York and Ware Rivers, VA	Benthic Habitat Maps and Biological Resources offshore Virginia 1996 and 1997(in relation to sandmining)	WormCam - Underwater camera in the York River, VA
STRATAFORMproject sediment profile imagery from the Eel Margin, 1995		Polychaete Key for Chesapeake Bay and Coastal Virginia (draft document)

Sediment profile and surface images were collected Dec., 1995 off Eureka,California. for the STRATAFORM project.
Time-lapse sediment profile imagery movie clip. Quicktime movie of time-lapse SPI deployment in theYork River, Summer 1996.

The Plowing Profile Camera (Burrow-Cutter-Diaz Sled, or SPI Plow), is Described here by an old poster abstract. It was more recently described in detail by a manuscript in press, to be published 1999: Journal of Shellfish Research, Vol. 17, No. 5.

Images from the SPI Plow (Burrow-Cutter-Diaz Plowing Profile Camera) Sled. Note, these are GIF compressed, reduced dimension versions of some fairly large files.Contact me for higher quality versions. The compressed sizes are:

Benthic Imaging Sled developed and deployed by us to map benthic habitats by real-time acquisition of underwater photographs, video, and water quality data, and to ground truth sidescan sonar records.
York River Oxygen Investigations and Data
Links to R. Cutter's thesis and other pages