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): Eric Grossman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Chris Curran (USGS), Steve Rubin (USGS), Skokomish Indian Tribe
Information Specialist(s): Eric Grossman
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Tide, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Environmental Data: Wave, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Characterize tidal flat and neashore benthic habitats response to large-scale wetland restoration and climate change; quantify suspended and bed load sediment transport; map seagrass distributions; map geomorphic change
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Potlatch, WA
End Port/Location: Potlatch, WA
Start Date: 2014-08-11
End Date: 2014-08-13
Equipment Used: Sediment trap, sample, CTD, temperature, currentmeter, turbiditymeter, wavegauge, tidemeter, Sensors - pressure, video, camera, topographic equipment, GPS, Ponar grab sampler, echosounder, Moorings - Tripods
Information to be Derived: grain Size, carbon, invertebrate biomass/community structure, suspended and bedload sediment flux over tide cycle; seagrass distribution; nearshore and channel change
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: grainsize data on FAD
Staff: Eric Grossman
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity B-06-13-PS
Other staff, Chris Curran and Steve Rubin, are not in the Assign Staff scroll even though they are USGS.
Location:
Skokomish Delta, Hood Canal, WA
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 47.44480754 | South: 47.28946656 | West: -123.203 | East: -123.00994873 |
Platform(s):
15-ft Whaler |  on foot |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sediment trap | --- | Sediment Properties Geology | |
| sample | --- | Surveys (biological) | |
| CTD | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Experiments (geochemical) CTD | |
| temperature | --- | Temperature | |
| currentmeter | --- | Current | |
| turbiditymeter | --- | Turbidity | |
| wavegauge | --- | Wave | |
| tidemeter | --- | Tide | |
| Sensors - pressure | --- | Depth | |
| video | --- | Video | |
| camera | --- | Photo | |
| topographic equipment | --- | Profiles Transects | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Ponar grab sampler | --- | Biology Chemistry Geology | |
| echosounder | --- | Single Beam | |
| Moorings - Tripods | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) |
