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Field Activity Details for field activity 10SWL01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Julie Bernier

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Julie Bernier

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Quantify accommodation-space formation, subsidence, and erosion in areas of historic wetland loss

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Sulphur, LA

End Port/Location: Sulphur, LA

Start Date: 2010-08-02

End Date: 2010-08-15

Equipment Used: Choke Ring Antenna, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Push Corer

Information to be Derived: - GPS sediment-surface elevations will be used to estimate one-dimensional and three-dimensional accommodation space formed by historic wetland loss, - Stratigraphic analysis will be used to estimate the magnitude and rate of subsidence and erosion betwee

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Julie Bernier, Nancy DeWitt, Gary Hill, Kyle Kelso

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Shop Time: Dave Wegener built a mount to attach the GPS antenna to the airboat

Location:

Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, LA

Boundaries
North: 29.95938816 South: 29.82960543 West: -93.6116 East: -93.41354435

Platform(s):

photo of Airboat
Airboat

Publications

Bernier, J.C., 2017, Elevation data collected in 2010 from Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7BR8QBH.

Bernier, J.C., 2013, Trends and causes of historical wetland loss in coastal Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2013-317, https://doi.org/10.3133/fs20133017.

Bernier, J.C., Morton, R.A., Kelso, K.W., 2011, Trends and causes of historical wetland loss, Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, southwest Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1169, 36 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111169.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
snwr_elev2010 (DGPS point elevation data)
Push Corer --- Geology
10SWL01-SA-rd-1 (Push cores)
OFR_2011-1169_AppA_all_sects (core description sheets)

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