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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-308-FA

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Other ID: 15CCT01

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Mendenhall Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (MU173)

Principal Investigator(s): Terrence McCloskey

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Julie Bernier

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collection of sediments cores to investigate the preservation of storm deposits.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2015-02-23

End Date: 2015-02-25

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Collapsible Tripod, Push Corer, Grab Sampler

Information to be Derived: Determine bioturbation rate of storm deposits.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Christian Haller, Marci Marot

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Wacassasa, FL

Boundaries
North: 29.08460154 South: 29.07102417 West: -82.7834 East: -82.75904236

Platform(s):


Jon Boat

Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Collapsible Tripod --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Push Corer --- Geology
AlphaSpecData (Spreadsheet of specific activity of Pb-210 and error bars)
GrainSizeData (Spreadsheet of grain size parameters for cores WC04D, WC10D, WC20D, WC21D)
Pollen-WC20R (Spreadsheet of pollen counts and concentrations for core WC20R)
RadioCarbonDates (Spreadsheet of radiocarbon and calibrated dates)
LOI (Spreadsheet of water, organic, carbonate, and residual percentages of auger cores)
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)
XRF (Spreadsheet of elemental concentrations for auger cores)
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)
Grab Sampler --- Biology
Geology
CoreLocations (Core site locations. This has sites for grab samples and push cores. Includes FAN 2014-335-FA also.)

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