Other ID: none
Status: Pending
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): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect marsh sediment cores in Herring River and Great Barnstable Marsh estuaries on Cape Cod to examine environmental geochemistry and depositional history
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2017-05-25
End Date: 2017-10-27
Equipment Used: Garmin GPS 76, Push corer (wh)
Information to be Derived: Physical and chemical properties of marsh sediment cores
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sample collection was completed and data were released in Science Base
Staff: Adrian Mann, 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 2016-016-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: 42.0863757 | South: 41.62198826 | West: -70.47039316 | East: -69.90063816 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
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.
O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Wang, F., Tang, J., Roberts, D., Sanks, K., Smith, T.P., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RXPHB.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Garmin GPS 76 | --- | Navigation | |
| Push corer (wh) | --- | Biology Geology |
