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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-066-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): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Conduct elevation surveys in 11 tidally-restricted estuary systems on Cape Cod

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2017-12-18

End Date: 2017-12-18

Equipment Used: Real Time Kinematic GPS

Information to be Derived: marsh elevation data from State Game Farm, Sandwich, MA

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: RTK measurements are complete for these sites.

Staff: Meagan Eagle, 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

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2017-035-FA

Location:

Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States

Boundaries
North: 42.0863757 South: 41.62198826 West: -70.47039316 East: -69.90063816

Platform(s):

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on foot

Publications

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Real Time Kinematic GPS --- Navigation

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