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: CTD, Environmental Data: Depth, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring
Scientific Purpose/Goals: 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.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2016-06-27
End Date: 2016-06-28
Equipment Used: CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD), Real Time Kinematic GPS, Push corer (wh), Other
Information to be Derived: Geochemistry, elevation of transects along tidally restricted creeks
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Marsh sediment core collections, CTD maintenance
Staff: Meagan Eagle, Kevin Kroeger, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: 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
Location:
Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.7675988 | South: 41.62198826 | West: -70.4649 | East: -70.04895359 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
Eagle, M.J., Kroeger, K.D., Spivak, A.C., Wang, F., Tang, J., Abdul-Aziz, O.I., Ishtiaq, K.S., O'Keefe-Suttles, J.A., Mann, A.G., 2022, Soil carbon consequences of historic hydrologic impairment and recent restoration in coastal wetlands: Science of the Total Environment, v. 848, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157682.
O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Spivak, A., Sanks, K., Roberts, D., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R154DY.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl | --- | CTD | |
| In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) | --- | Geochemical Monitoring Conductivity Depth Temperature | |
| Real Time Kinematic GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Push corer (wh) | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
