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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-036-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Eagle

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Sandy Baldwin

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect elevation surveys for 11 tidally restricted estuarine systems on Cape Cod.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, Ma

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, ma

Start Date: 2015-06-17

End Date: 2015-06-17

Equipment Used: Other, Ashtech ADU2 Attitude sensor

Information to be Derived: elevation of transects along tidally restricted creek

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Elevation data

Staff: Sandy Baldwin, Meagan Eagle, Barry Irwin, Daniel Roberts

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-042-FA

Location:

Outer Cape Cod estuaries, Quivett Creek, Bass Creek, Massachusetts

Boundaries
North: 41.99662555 South: 41.62595362 West: -70.4457 East: -69.90338474

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Eagle, M.J., Kroeger, K.D., Spivak, A.C., Wang, F., Tang, J., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Ishtiaq, K.S., O'Keefe-Suttles, J.A., Mann, A.G., 2022, Soil carbon consequences of historic hydrologic impairment and recent restoration in coastal wetlands: Science of the Total Environment, v. 848, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157682.

O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Spivak, A., Sanks, K., Roberts, D., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R154DY.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
Ashtech ADU2 Attitude sensor --- Transects

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