Other ID: 14CCT02
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines - SSIEES (GX.18.MN00.F1M10.00)
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Smith
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Julie Bernier
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment cores to assess marsh history.
Vehicle(s): White Dodge Pickup - White
Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Start Date: 2014-11-20
End Date: 2014-11-22
Equipment Used: GPS , Grab Sampler, Push Corer
Information to be Derived: Core descriptions, bulk density, LOI, Pb-210, Cs-137, and foram assemblages.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 3 peat auger cores, 2 marsh surface samples.
Staff: Charles Adams, Christian Haller, Terrence McCloskey, Christopher Smith
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Wacasassa Bay, Florida
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 29.2120689 | South: 29.07162957 | West: -82.9782 | East: -82.68951464 |
Platform(s):
 Mako (SP) |
McCloskey, T., Smith, C.G., Liu, K.-biu, Marot, M.E., Haller, C., 2018, How could a freshwater swamp produce a chemical signature characteristic of a saltmarsh? ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, v. 2 no. 1, pp. 9–20, doi: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.7b00098.
McCloskey, T.A., Smith, C.G., Haller, C., Marot, M., 2017, Sedimentary data from the coastal marshes fringing the lower Waccasassa River, northwest Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F73J3B5K.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Grab Sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Push Corer | --- | Geology | CorePhotos (Photographs of auger cores) GammaSpecData (Spreadsheet of specific activity of Be-7, Cs-137, Pb-210, Ra-226, Th-234, K-40 and error bars) GrainSizeData (Spreadsheet of grain size parameters for cores WC04D, WC10D, WC20D, WC21D) AlphaSpecData (Spreadsheet of specific activity of Pb-210 and error bars) LOI (Spreadsheet of water, organic, carbonate, and residual percentages of auger cores ) XRF (Spreadsheet of elemental concentrations for auger cores) Pollen-WC20R (Spreadsheet of pollen counts and concentrations for core WC20R) RadioCarbonDates (Spreadsheet of radiocarbon and calibrated dates) CoreLocations (Core site locations. This has sites for both grab samples and push cores. Includes FAN 2015-308-FA also.) SedimentPhysicalParameters (Spreadsheet of water content, dry bulk density and loss-on-ignition for cores cores WC04D, WC10D, WC11D, WC12D, WC20D, WC21D, WC22D, WC23D, and surface samples) |
