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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-675-FA

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AKA: DL137 recovery

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Lacy

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joanne Thede

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Determine the influence of aquatic vegetation on bed sediment properties.

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L, MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P

Start Port/Location: Antioch, CA

End Port/Location: Antioch, CA

Start Date: 2017-10-02

End Date: 2017-10-04

Equipment Used: navigation, Other, Gomex Core, Push corer

Information to be Derived: Sediment properties.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample analyses data submitted to FAD 2/7/2018

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Cordell Johnson, Jessica Lacy, Andrew Stevens

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2017-616-FA

Sediment samples will be taken with Gomex corer.

Location:

Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

Boundaries
North: 38.27587864 South: 38.22050211 West: -121.76098633 East: -121.67386646

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Drexler, J.Z., Khanna, S., and Lacy, J.R., 2021, Carbon storage and sediment trapping by a globally invasive freshwater macrophyte: Science of the Total Environment, v. 755, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142602.

Lacy, J.R., Ferreira, J.C.T., Dailey, E.T., Dartnell, P., Drexler, J.Z., Allen, R.M., and Stevens, A., 2020, Sediment transport and aquatic vegetation data from three locations in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2017 to 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9112AIP.

Lacy, J.R., Foster-Martinez, M., Allen, R.M., and Drexler, J.Z., 2021, Influence of invasive submerged aquatic vegetation (E. densa) on currents and sediment transport in a freshwater tidal system: Water Resources Research, v. 57, e2020WR028789 p., doi: 10.1029/2020WR028789.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
Other --- --- ---
Gomex Core --- Geology
Push corer --- Surveys (geochemical)
Surveys (biological)
Biology
Geology

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