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Field Activity Details for field activity 2013-061-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Biogeochemistry, groundwater monitoring, and environmental assessment (LQ000I4)

Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Eagle

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Meagan Eagle

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect marsh cores around Sage Lot Pond to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2013-12-04

End Date: 2013-12-04

Equipment Used: Push corer (wh), Visual navigation

Information to be Derived: Geochemistry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected marsh cores to be split and subsectioned for nutrient analyses.

Staff: Michael Casso, Kevin Kroeger

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program in Sage Lot Pond.

Location:

Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, Massachusetts, United States

Boundaries
North: 41.56164657 South: 41.54790461 West: -70.5223 East: -70.5006218

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Gonneea, M.E., O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., and Kroeger, K.D., 2018, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from salt marshes on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, from 2013 through 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7H41QPP.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Push corer (wh) --- Biology
Geology
Visual navigation --- Navigation

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