Other ID: none
Status: Pending
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems (LQ00G3S)
Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Steven Suttles
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To quantify critical sediment transport parameters of diverse wetland complexes within 4 NCBN parks, Cape Cod NS, Fire Island NS, Gateway NRA and Assateague Island NS in order to inform management efforts. Suspended-sediment concentration data over tidal and seasonal timescales and will directly inform and improve the predications developed as part of the marsh modeling effort for these parks.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Wellfleet, MA
End Port/Location: Wellfleet, MA
Start Date: 2019-05-13
End Date: 2019-05-16
Equipment Used: DGPS, GPS - Handheld, Spectra Precision SP80, Water sampler, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Deployment of time series instruments to measure water velocity, water quality, water level, and seabed change. Collect water samples for laboratory analysis of suspended sediment concentration (SSC) and organic content (LOI) for calibration of time series optical turbidity measurements.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-057-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-058-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-005-FA
Sites will be accessed by foot for this field activity.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-013-FA
Location:
Cape Cod National Seashore, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.94398134 | South: 41.91391145 | West: -70.07816315 | East: -70.04793803 |
Platform(s):
 Muddy Waters |  on foot |
De Meo, O.A., Suttles, S.E., Ganju, N.K., and Marsjanik, E.D., 2023, Water quality data from a multiparameter sonde collected in the Herring River during November 2018 to November 2019 in Wellfleet, MA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9K3SCKY.
De Meo, O.A., Suttles, S.E., Ganju, N.K., Marsjanik, E.D., 2022, Suspended-sediment concentrations and loss-on-ignition from water samples collected in the Herring River during 2018-19 in Wellfleet, MA (ver 1.1, March 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZL2IPN.
Suttles, S.E., De Meo, O.A., Ganju, N.K., Bales, R.D., and Marsjanik, E.D., 2023, Time-series measurements of oceanographic and water quality data collected in the Herring River, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, USA, November 2018 to November 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95AE74D.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| GPS - Handheld | --- | Navigation | |
| Spectra Precision SP80 | --- | Navigation | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) |
