Other ID: NFWF2022-23
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): Robert Bales
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Turbidity, Environmental Data: Current, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Sampling: Chemistry, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks
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: 2022-03-21
End Date: 2023-03-31
Equipment Used: YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, ADCP, Grab sampler, Bottom platform, Water sampler, RTK
Information to be Derived: water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Details of field activities are described for each event assosiated with this FAN. Data collected: Water levels, currents, waves, water-quality, turbidity, discharge, suspended solids concentration, and grain size data. Raw data collected by this instrument is located on the USGS WHSC server under the 'stg' folder. The data will undergo a QAQC process before it is released publicly in ~Fall 2023 using the USGS data-release-builder and ScienceBase. This is part of the NFWF NJ project.
Staff: Erin Lyons, Olivia De Meo, Robert Bales, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles, Neil Kamal Ganju
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.
EVENT type Field Activity.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde | --- | Chlorophyll Conductivity Depth Dissolved Oxygen Fluorescence Nitrate ORP pH Temperature Turbidity | |
| ADCP | --- | Current | |
| Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| RTK | --- | Transects Benchmarks |
