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Field Activity Details for field activity 2009-601-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound (ZP00AZZ)

Principal Investigator(s): Renee Takesue

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Renee Takesue

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Vegetation Survey

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Friday Harbor, WA

End Port/Location: Friday Harbor, WA

Start Date: 2009-08-19

End Date: 2009-08-22

Equipment Used: Handheld GPS, pushcore, turbiditymeter

Information to be Derived: Plant biomass and densities; optical backscatter measurements; sediment redox and sulfide.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: GPS and plants spreadsheet submitted to FAD 9/5/2018 Turbidity data was collected for 5 days at two sites. Eelgrass surveys and sediment cores were collected at three sites.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Boat is Friday Harbor's lab R/V Auklet; eelgrass surveys were done with quadrats.

Location:

San Juan Islands, WA

Boundaries
North: 48.63506405 South: 48.52576799 West: -123.19656372 East: -122.87945896

Platform(s):

photo of Auklet
Auklet

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
pushcore --- Geology
turbiditymeter --- Turbidity

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