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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-624-FA

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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): Melissa Foley, Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Melissa Foley

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Chlorophyll, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Nitrate, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor the change in the estuary and nearshore following dam removal on the Elwha River

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

End Port/Location: Port Angeles, WA

Start Date: 2015-03-30

End Date: 2015-04-03

Equipment Used: Push corer, water bottle, CTD, watersamples, CT, turbiditymeter, Nutrient sampler, GPS, waterbottle

Information to be Derived: nutrient concentration, chlorophyll concentration, particulate organic matter concentration, stable isotope value

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: PAR files submitted to FAD 6/1/2015 sample locations to FAD 8/19/2015

Staff: Melissa Foley

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-614-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-628-FA

Location:

Elwha River, Port Angeles, Washington

Boundaries
North: 48.17341249 South: 48.06230138 West: -123.593 East: -123.48233371

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Push corer --- Surveys (geochemical)
Surveys (biological)
Biology
Geology
water bottle --- Surveys (biological)
Biology
Chemistry
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
watersamples --- Conductivity
CTD
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Wave
CT --- Conductivity
Temperature
turbiditymeter --- Turbidity
Nutrient sampler --- Chlorophyll
Nutrients
GPS --- Navigation
waterbottle --- Chemistry

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