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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-315-FA

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Other ID: 17CCT02

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): Nicole Khan, Kathryn Smith

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Chelsea Stalk

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Tide, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Environmental Data: Wave, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To deploy sediment tracers and sediment traps at erosion monitoring sites within Grand Bay marshes.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2017-04-18

End Date: 2017-04-23

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Other, Choke Ring Antenna, Water Level Recorder, Sediment Trap

Information to be Derived: Marsh surface elevation, water level readings, sediment plates, surface sediment samples

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Retrieved sediment plates and collected ~490 GPS point elevations for sample locations and marsh edge surveys.

Staff: Nicole Khan, Kathryn Smith, Chelsea Stalk, Joseph Terrano

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Grand Bay, MS

Boundaries
North: 30.43683405 South: 30.33391864 West: -88.4564209 East: -88.36181641

Platform(s):


FWS SeaArk Jon Boat

Publications

Ellis, A.M., Smith, C.G., Vargas, J.M., and Everhart, C.S., 2022, Sediment and radiochemical characteristics from a shore perpendicular estuarine and marsh transect in the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BLFW2G.

Smith, K.E.L., Terrano, J.F., Khan, N., Stalk, C.A., 2020, Shore proximal sediment deposition, elevation, and water level data for four sites in the coastal marsh at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Mississippi from October 2016 through October 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BFR2US.

Smith, K.E.L., Terrano, J.F., Khan, N.S., Smith, C.G., Pitchford, J.L., 2021, Lateral shoreline erosion and shore-proximal sediment deposition on a coastal marsh from seasonal, storm and decadal measurements: Geomorphology, Geomorphology, v. 389, 107829 p., doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2021.107829.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
17CCT02_Transect_SiteInfo.zip (Location and elevation of transect surface samples)
Other --- --- ---
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Water Level Recorder --- Benchmarks
Sediment Trap --- Geology
17CCT02_Transect_Radiochemistry.zip (Radiochemical properties for select sediment surface samples via gamma spectroscopy)
17CCT02_Transect_LOI.zip (Loss-on-Ignition (LOI) data for organic matter content for the sediment surface samples)
17CCT02_Transect_GrainSize.zip (Grain-size characteristics for the sediment surface samples)

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