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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-025-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Hurricane Sandy - Estuarine Response to Storm Forcing (AE03FKD)

Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Sandy Baldwin

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Current, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: The purpose of this field work is to measure the discharge from two creeks into Barnegat bay over a tidal cycle.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, Ma

End Port/Location: Barnegat Bay, NJ

Start Date: 2015-05-10

End Date: 2015-05-16

Equipment Used: ADCP, GPS - Handheld

Information to be Derived: ADCP discharge measurements

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: We collected a tidal cycle of discharge measurements at Dinner Creek, and a tidal cycle of discharge measurements at Reedy Creek. We also collected 28 samples to be filtered and run for SSC

Staff: Sandy Baldwin, Jonathan Borden

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-049-FA

Location:

Barnegat Bay, NJ

Boundaries
North: 40.04903694 South: 39.62119287 West: -74.2525 East: -74.0369907

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ADCP --- Current
GPS - Handheld --- Navigation

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