Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): NFWF/Monitoring Beach Marsh (MN00GSM)
Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Steven Suttles
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Sampling: Chemistry, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: The proposed plan will use remote sensing techniques and targeted in-situ observations to monitor the post-restoration evolution of beaches, dunes, vegetative cover, and sediment budgets at beach and dune restoration sites specified in the RFP. We will use these data to evaluate if/how restoration projects improved ecological outcomes and decreased storm vulnerability relative to unaltered environments, thereby providing input necessary for estimating cost-effectiveness. The work as part of this field activity will focus on in-situ monitoring of sediment transport and water-quality in creeks within two of the restored marsh/dune sites.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Stone Harbor, NJ
End Port/Location: Port Norris, NJ
Start Date: 2018-09-17
End Date: 2018-09-20
Equipment Used: ADCP, YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, Grab sampler, Bottom platform, Wingscapes BirdCam Pro, RTK, Water sampler
Information to be Derived: water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Deployment 1116A, 1118AB, and 1119A: On September 18, 2018, a YSI EXO2 and RBR Dwave were deployed at mooring 1116A (the northeast site at the Stone Harbor marsh channel) on a bottom lander platform. An SP80 RTK receiver was used to get horizontal and vertical positions of the platform. On September 19, 2018, a YSI EXO2, and RBR Dwave were deployed at mooring 1119A (the landward site at the Thompsons Beach marsh channel) on a bottom lander platform and a Nortek Aquadopp was deployed at mooring 1118AB (the seaward site at the Thompsons Beach marsh channel).
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Neil Kamal Ganju, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Funding Project: MN00GSM NFWF/Monitoring Beach Marsh GR18LQ00GSM2000
Location:
Stone Harbor and Thompsons Beach, New Jersey, United States, Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay.
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 39.2449 | South: 38.9868 | West: -75.0724 | East: -74.6053 |
Platform(s):
 Muddy Waters |
Bales, R.D., Suttles, S.E., De Meo, O.A., Ganju, N.K., and Marsjanik, E.D., 2024, Time-series measurements of oceanographic and water quality data collected at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, USA, September 2018 to September 2019 and March 2022 to May 2023: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Z0Z8DM.
De Meo, O.A., Bales, R.D., Ganju, N.K., Marsjanik, E.D., and Suttles, S.E., 2024, Calculation of a suspended-sediment concentration-turbidity regression model and flood-ebb suspended-sediment concentration differentials from marshes near Stone Harbor and Thompsons Beach, New Jersey, 2018-19 and 2022-23: U.S. Geological Survey Data Report 1193, 12 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/dr1193.
De Meo, O.A., Bales, R.D., Suttles, S.E., Marsjanik, E.D., and Ganju, N.K., 2024, Supplementary data in support of oceanographic and water quality times-series measurements made at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, NJ from September 2018 to February 2023: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9CS5U6N.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADCP | --- | Current | |
| YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde | --- | Chlorophyll Conductivity Depth Dissolved Oxygen Fluorescence Nitrate ORP pH Temperature Turbidity | |
| Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Bottom platform | This platform had a multi-parameter water quality sonde (YSI EXO2) that measured pressure, salinity, water temperature, turbidity, oxygen, fluorescent dissolved organic matter (fDom), Chlorophyll, and blue green algae fluorescence. The platform also had a fast-sampling pressure logger (RBR Dwave) to measure tides and non-directional waves. On September 19, 2018, two instrumented bottom landing fiberglass platforms were deployed in the marsh channel at the Thompsons Beach site. The platform further south (seaward), had an acoustic Doppler current profiler (Nortek Aquadopp) that measured water velocity, pressure, and temperature. The platform further north (landward) had a multi-parameter water quality sonde (YSI EXO2) and a fast-sampling pressure logger (RBR Dwave) measuring the same parameters as the platform in the marsh channel at Stone Harbor. | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Wingscapes BirdCam Pro | --- | Photo Video | |
| RTK | --- | Transects Benchmarks | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry |
