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Archive for April, 2006

Seasonal Change in Heron’s Head Salt Marsh Micro-community

Monday, April 17th, 2006

In the post prior to this one [see below - Heron's Head Salt Marsh Losing Salt], I observed that both San Francisco Bay and salt marsh ponds on Heron’s Head were becoming much less salty with the winter rains. In this post, I describe how this has impacted the Heron’s Head salt marsh micro-community.

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Heron’s Head Salt Marsh Losing Salt

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

Actually, as it turns out, most of San Francisco Bay is becoming less salty these days.
Matteo Neivert, Exploratorium Visiting Artist, and I were hiking around the Heron’s Head salt marsh on Thursday morning of April 6th. I took several samples near our previous sampling sites, and while I was at it, I checked [...]

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