Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-029-FA

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): Meagan Eagle, Kevin Kroeger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Faming Wang, MBL Jim Tang, MBL

Information Specialist(s): Meagan Eagle

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Installation of boardwalks to sampling sites in order to Collect marsh cores, pore-water and surface water conductivity, temperature and depth time-series data, and conduct elevation surveys in 11 tidally-restricted estuary systems on Cape Cod to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.

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Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2016-05-02

End Date: 2016-05-03

Equipment Used: CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD), Real Time Kinematic GPS, Push corer (wh)

Information to be Derived: Geochemistry, elevation of transects along tidally restricted creeks

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Installed boardwalks over marsh

Staff: Meagan Eagle, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles

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Notes: Installation of boardwalks to marsh sammpling sites.

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

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-016-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-021-FA

Location:

Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States

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