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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-664-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): Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jonathan Warrick

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Environmental Data: Chlorophyll, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Light, Environmental Data: Nutrients, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Biology Monitoring, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor the change in the river, 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: 2016-09-27

End Date: 2016-10-03

Equipment Used: pushcore, sample, CTD, watersamples, turbiditymeter, lightsensor, Nutrient sampler, Handheld GPS, biology monitoring, Other, Moorings - Tripods

Information to be Derived: chlorophyll, nutrients, benthic invertebrates, grain size

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample analysis submitted to FAD 3/15/2017 Sample list in FAD 10/19/2016

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

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-624-FA

From Melissa Foley, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:29 AM PDT:
the equipment is borrowed from the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, one of our collaborators on the Elwha project. Jon will not be in the field. Jeff Duda, from the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center and Sarah Morley from NOAA will be in the field with me for part of the time.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-635-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-652-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-603-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-634-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-652-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
pushcore --- Geology
sample --- Surveys (biological)
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
watersamples --- Conductivity
CTD
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Wave
turbiditymeter --- Turbidity
lightsensor --- Light
Nutrient sampler --- Chlorophyll
Nutrients
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
biology monitoring --- Biology Monitoring
Other --- --- ---
Moorings - Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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