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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-614-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound (ZP00AZZ)

Principal Investigator(s): Andrew Stevens, Renee Takesue

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Andrew Stevens

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Quantify changes in eelgrass habitat on the Nisqually River delta

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Olympia, WA

End Port/Location: Olympia, WA

Start Date: 2017-02-19

End Date: 2017-02-25

Equipment Used: GPS, Biosonics 420kHz, YSI Sound velocity CTD, camera

Information to be Derived: nearshore bathymetry, eelgrass presence

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: biosonics, field_notes, gnss, hypack, matlab, photos, planning and SVP data submitted to FAD 2/28/2017

Staff: Andrew Stevens

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Nisqually River delta Washington Puget Sound

Boundaries
North: 47.13403817 South: 47.05452901 West: -122.75436401 East: -122.65698581

Platform(s):


Other

Publications

Stevens, A.W., Takesue, R.K., and Grossman, E.E., 2020, Eelgrass distributions and bathymetry of the Nisqually River delta, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9N9K2I1.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Biosonics 420kHz --- Single Beam
Eelgrass distributions and bathymetry derived from an acoustic survey of the Nisqually River delta, Washington, 2017 (This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distribution and bathymetry data derived from acoustic surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2017.)
YSI Sound velocity CTD --- Sound Velocity
camera --- Photo
Eelgrass distributions derived from a towed underwater video survey of the Nisqually River delta, 2017 (This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distributions derived from towed underwater video surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2017.)

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