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: Turbidity, Environmental Data: Current, 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: Port Norris, NJ
End Port/Location: Stone Harbor, NJ
Start Date: 2018-10-08
End Date: 2018-10-12
Equipment Used: YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, ADCP, Grab sampler, Wingscapes BirdCam Pro, RTK, Water sampler, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters. Flow/discharge. Water samples for suspended sediment concentration and organic content.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Deployment 1115A: On October 10, 2018, a Sontek IQ Plus was deployed at mooring 1115A (the southwest site in the Stone Harbor marsh channel) on a bottom lander platform. An SP80 RTK receiver was used to get the horizontal and vertical positions of platform as well as a cross-sectional survey of the marsh channel for Sontek IQ Plus flow calculations.
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Funding Project: MN00GSM NFWF/Monitoring Beach Marsh GR18LQ00GSM2000
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-048-FA
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., 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde | --- | Chlorophyll Conductivity Depth Dissolved Oxygen Fluorescence Nitrate ORP pH Temperature Turbidity | |
| ADCP | --- | Current | |
| Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Wingscapes BirdCam Pro | --- | Photo Video | |
| RTK | --- | Transects Benchmarks | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) |
