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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-355-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Sea-level and Storm Impacts on Estuarine Environments and Shorelines - SSIEES (GX.18.MN00.F1M10.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Terrence McCloskey, Christopher Smith

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nicholas Zaremba

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect surface sediment, porewater samples, and visual observations.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually - Silver (GSA)

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2016-09-22

End Date: 2016-09-22

Equipment Used: Peat Corer, GPS Pole, Camera, Digital, Hand Held

Information to be Derived: Effects of Hurricane Hermine

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Purpose-recon for Hurricane Hermine deposits. USGS staff went to the river mouth and saw some very indistinct event layers. Found a large wrack deposit upstream. Tried to collect pore water samples, but had difficulties below 70 cm depth.

Staff: Nicholas Zaremba

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: High tide when we entered the river.

Location:

Waccasassa Bay, FL

Boundaries
North: 29.17325992 South: 29.15772374 West: -82.81082153 East: -82.79564736

Platform(s):


Jon Boat

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Peat CorerNo peat cores were collected.Biology
Geology
No data was collected
GPS PoleNo location or elevation data were collected.Navigation
Profiles
Transects
No data was collected
Camera, Digital, Hand Held40 photos taken, saved to the server gs>stpetersburgfl.g.Projects.CliCC>SSIEES>Data>2016>335FA(16CCT06)>RAW>Photos>DCIMPhoto
No data was collected

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