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): Kevin Kroeger
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Meagan Eagle
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Visual Identification: Ground Truthing, Visual Identification: Species ID
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect marsh biomass samples for ground-truthing LANDSAT Satellite data.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2015-09-08
End Date: 2015-09-09
Equipment Used: Garmin GPS 76, Other, Other, Reconnaissance
Information to be Derived: Biomass
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Vegetation was collected within specified quadrats. Samples were bagged and returned to the lab to be weighed and dried.
Staff: Meagan Eagle, Adrian Green, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation at restored marsh sites on Cape Cod.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-042-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-055-FA
Collection of vegetation within specified quadrats. Equipment is pruning shears. Samples will be bagged and returned to the lab to be weighed and dried.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-060-FA
Location:
Herring River Estuary, Massachusetts, United States
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.9604446469 | South: 41.9293947463 | West: -70.071 | East: -70.0543013873 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Wang, F., Tang, J., Roberts, D., Sanks, K., Smith, T.P., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RXPHB.
O’Keefe Suttles, J.A., Gonneea, M.E., Brosnahan, S.M., Mann, A.G., Brooks, T.W., Kroeger, K.D., Medeiros, K., Smith, T.P., Wang, F., and Tang, J., 2020, Continuous monitoring data from Herring River wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R4SRTR.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garmin GPS 76 | --- | Navigation | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Reconnaissance | --- | Ground Truthing |
