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Field Activity Details for field activity ER107WA

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AKA: none

Other ID: E-R1-07-WA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Elwha Dam Removal Project (MU096)

Principal Investigator(s): Amy Draut, Amy East

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Repeat topographic surveys of sample transects. Conduct photographic transects on river bars.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

End Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

Start Date: 2007-04-02

End Date: 2007-04-11

Equipment Used: GPS, Totalstation, samples, CobbleCam, digitalcamera

Information to be Derived: Grain size of river sediments prior to dam removal.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Amy Draut, Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Amy Draut
Josh Logan

Location:

Elwha River watershed

Boundaries
North: 49.75 South: 45.25 West: -127.75 East: -116.25

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Draut, A.E., and Ritchie, A.C., 2015, Sedimentology of new fluvial deposits on the Elwha River, Washington, USA, formed during large-scale dam removal: River Research and Applications, v. 31 no. 1, 42â61 p., doi: 10.1002/rra.2724.

Draut, A.E., Logan, J.B., and Mastin, M.C., 2011, Channel evolution on the dammed Elwha River, Washington, USA: Geomorphology, v. 127 no. 1-2, pp. 71–87, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.12.008.

East, A.E., Logan, J.B., and Mastin, M.C., 2018, River-channel topography and sediment grain size on the Elwha River, Washington, 2006 to 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Totalstation --- Navigation
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
CobbleCam --- Photo
digitalcamera --- Photo

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