SP Meyers 1996 Journal 39 TRACETS 6-10, Barrow, Alaska 25 July (Cont'd) polym areas with standing water, hit particularly to low low center polygon with much stand 12 - Carex-Eriophorum nassulatum, [illegible] Eriophorum are distributed in floders and also as solitary, aggregative broody birds, chasing other q from their vicinity. During the afternoon, so I wandered back from the end of transect 10, I photographed a number of habitat types so that the ordination will be more easily interpreted. My plan is to present photos of the extremes of various habitat axes, identified as particular transect units. GRID 2 26 July 0830 - 1030 cursued GRID 2. 38°, mod S wind 0% clouds GRID TOTALS Polystichia stellera 2 2-4 chicks Pluviala dominica 6 C. alpina a 18 j 3 C. baudii 1 C. melanos 89 4 ♀ 11 j 3 C. pusilla a 1 Ph. fulticarius 6 9 ♀ 0 j 6 Stercorius pom 2 Stercorius longicaudus 1 Calcarius lapponicus Calcarius lapponicus 5 Nothing remarkable this morning save the decreasing number of juveniles present. During the afternoon I trickled out along transects 6-10 to the end, placing a series of 25 stakes in every 5th unit. Stakes are paired with a labeling number, 1-25, and a centimeter scale. They are to be sampled every time that transect 6-10 are run. Each is placed in a representative - subjectively chosen - point in low lying areas within the unit in question - i.e. in a trough if the unit is high polygon - trough. Hopefully they will provide an index of [illegible] changing water conditions. I only wish that I'd done it last summer.