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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-038-FA

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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: CO2, Environmental Data: Meteorology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Continuous monitoring of surface water and pore-water depth, salinity, and temperature, soil temperature and meteorological data in several estuary systems across 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: 2017-06-07

End Date: 2017-06-07

Equipment Used: Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS), Other

Information to be Derived: maintenance and data download of meteorological station sensors. CO2 measurements

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: replaced met station sensors fter they were removed for maintenance. Co2 chamber measurements (Faming)

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 2017-036-FA

Location:

Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States

Boundaries
North: 42.09045224 South: 41.60556066 West: -70.51433848 East: -69.94458347

Platform(s):

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on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) --- CO2
Methane
Experiments (geochemical)
Surveys (geochemical)
Chemistry
Other --- --- ---

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