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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-613-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments (ZP00FDB)

Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Lacy

Affiliate Investigator(s): Jon Burau USGS Tara Morgan USGS

Information Specialist(s): Emily Carlson

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Environmental Data: Wave, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To improve the scientific basis for shallow water habitat restoration to support fisheries in the San Francisco Bay Delta, in collaboration with scientists from the CA Water Science Center.

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L

Start Port/Location: Walnut Grove, CA

End Port/Location: Walnut Grove, CA

Start Date: 2017-01-30

End Date: 2017-04-14

Equipment Used: watersamples, navigation, sampling equipment, Other

Information to be Derived: Time series of suspended sediment concentration, tidal stage, and wave attributes.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample analysis data submitted to FAD

Staff: Emily Carlson, Peter Dal Ferro, Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Three days for deployment, two for recovery.
Information specialist is Emily Carlson.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-655-FA.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-659-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-663-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-678-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-607-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-623-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-646-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-662-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-669-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-681-FA

Location:

San Francisco Bay Delta, Little Holland Tract, California

Boundaries
North: 38.34440275 South: 38.22842333 West: -121.729 East: -121.63231728

Platform(s):

photo of Fast Eddy (SC)
Fast Eddy (SC)

Publications

Lacy, J.R., Carlson, E.M., and Ferreira, J.C.T., 2019, Wind-wave and sediment-transport time-series data from Liberty Island and Little Holland Tract, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2015-2017 (ver. 2.0, September 2019): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F73R0R07.

Lacy, J.R., Dailey, E.T., and Carlson, E.M., 2018, Bed sediment properties in Little Holland Tract and Liberty Island, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2014 to 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
watersamples --- Conductivity
CTD
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Wave
navigation --- Navigation
sampling equipment --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Other --- --- ---

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