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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-615-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Lacy

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Evan Dailey

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To improve the scientific basis for shallow water habitat restoration to support fisheries in the San Francisco Bay Delta, in collaboration with scientists from the CA Water Science Center.

Vehicle(s): MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R

Start Port/Location: Rio Vista, CA

End Port/Location: Rio Vista, CA

Start Date: 2019-03-27

End Date: 2019-03-27

Equipment Used: Push corer, Garmin

Information to be Derived: Grain size and bulk density of bed sediments.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sediment cores were collected at two locations in Liberty Island and two stations in Little Holland Tract.

Staff: Evan Dailey, Peter Dal Ferro

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-644-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-673-FA

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-687-FA

Location:

San Francisco Bay Delta, Little Holland Tract, California

Boundaries
North: 38.34440275 South: 38.22842333 West: -121.729 East: -121.63231728

Platform(s):


R/V Jewell

Publications

Lacy, J.R., Dailey, E.T., and Carlson, E.M., 2020, Bed sediment properties in Little Holland Tract and Liberty Island, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2014 to 2019 (ver. 2.0, May 2020): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7V1241K.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Push corer --- Surveys (geochemical)
Surveys (biological)
Biology
Geology
Garmin --- Navigation

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