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Field Activity Details for field activity ER208WA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Effects of Elwha River dam removal (MU093)

Principal Investigator(s): Amy East

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Elwha River profiles

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: none

End Port/Location: none

Start Date: 2008-09-07

End Date: 2008-09-12

Equipment Used: CobbleCam, Totalstation

Information to be Derived: Elwha River profiles;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: added when Josh Logan submitted Totalstation data

Location:

Elwha River, WA

Boundaries
North: 48.7911144 South: 47.67591987 West: -124.1796 East: -121.46866977

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
CobbleCam --- Photo
Totalstation --- Navigation

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