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Field Activity Details for field activity ER111WA

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AKA: none

Other ID: E-R1-11-WA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Amy Draut, Amy East

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Transects

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: 2011-04-08

End Date: 2011-04-15

Equipment Used: Total Station, CobbleCam

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

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Data on FAD

Staff: Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:
Mark Mastin (Surveyor
USGS) - Hydrologist

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Amy Draut (USGS) - Chief Scientist
Mark Mastin (Surveyor, USGS) - Hydrologist
Josh Logan (Information Specialist, USGS) - Geographer

Location:

WA

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.

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.

East, A.E., Pess, G.R., Bountry, J.A., Magirl, C.S., Ritchie, A.C., Logan, J.B., Randle, T.J., Mastin, M.C., Minear, J.T., Duda, J.J., Liermann, M.C., McHenry, M.L., Beechie, T.J., and Shafroth, P.B., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change: Geomorphology, v. 228, pp. 765–786, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.08.028.

Warrick, J., Bountry, J.A., East, A., Magirl, C.S., Randle, T.J., Gelfenbaum, G.R., Ritchie, A.C., Pess, G.R., Leung, V., Duda, J., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: source-to-sink sediment budget and synthesis: Geomorphology, v. 246, pp. 729–750, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.010.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Total Station --- Benchmarks
Profiles
Transects
CobbleCam --- Photo

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