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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-028-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

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

Funding Program(s): Biogeochemistry, groundwater monitoring, and environmental assessment (LQ000I4)

Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Eagle, Kevin Kroeger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Sophie Chu, WHOI Aleck Wang, WHOI

Information Specialist(s): Meagan Eagle

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Chlorophyll, Environmental Data: CO2, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Nutrients, Environmental Data: ORP, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Radon, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Sampling: Chemistry, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect pore water and surface water samples, and time-series water quality and flow data from Sage Lot Pond to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2016-05-25

End Date: 2016-05-25

Equipment Used: YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, Push Point porewater samplers, YSI multiparameter sonde, Other, ProOceanus pCO2-mini, ProOceanus pCO2-Pro, RAD7 radon detection instrument, SonTek-IQ Plus current meter, Sensor - turbidity, Water sampler, Other

Information to be Derived: Geochemistry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 10 sets of marsh creek surface water and marsh pore water, alongside time-series sensor data

Staff: Meagan Eagle, Sandra Brosnahan, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program in Sage Lot Pond.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-038-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-015-FA

Location:

Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, Massachusetts, United States

Boundaries
North: 41.56164657 South: 41.54790461 West: -70.5223 East: -70.5006218

Platform(s):

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Publications

Brooks, T.W., Eagle, M., Kroeger, K.D., Mann, A.G., Wang, Z.A., Ganju, N.K., O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Brosnahan, S.M., Chu, S.N., Song, S., Pohlman, J.W., Casso, M., Tamborski, J.J., Morkeski, K., Carey, J.C., Ganguli, P.M., Williams, O.L., and Kurtz, A.C., 2021, Geochemical data supporting investigation of solute and particle cycling and fluxes from two tidal wetlands on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2012-19 (ver. 2.0, October 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9MXLUZ1.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde --- Chlorophyll
Conductivity
Depth
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
ORP
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Push Point porewater samplers --- Chemistry
Temperature
pH
Dissolved Oxygen
ORP
Methane
Nutrients
YSI multiparameter sonde --- Conductivity
Dissolved Oxygen
ORP
pH
Temperature
Other --- --- ---
ProOceanus pCO2-mini --- CO2
ProOceanus pCO2-Pro --- CO2
RAD7 radon detection instrument --- Radon
SonTek-IQ Plus current meter --- Current
Sensor - turbidity --- Turbidity
Water sampler --- Chemistry
Other --- --- ---

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