Other ID: NFWF AQD Platform Diving Recovery
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, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Environmental Data: Current
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. This specific activity is for the recovery of the AQD platform at Thompsons Beach, NJ.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Port Norris, NJ
End Port/Location: Port Norris, NJ
Start Date: 2023-05-15
End Date: 2023-05-19
Equipment Used: YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde, Water sampler, Grab sampler, ADCP, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Pressure and water velocities inside a Thompsons Beach marsh channel.
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Successfully recovered platform (mooring 1152DE) with an upward-looking Nortek Aquadopp. Raw time-series 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. This is part of the NFWF NJ project. See FA 2022-013-FA for more information about 2022 and early 2023 NFWF NJ data collection.
Staff: Eric Moore, Alexander Nichols, Michael Casso, Robert Bales
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: This is part of the NFWF NJ project. See FA 2022-013-FA . We were not able to successfully recover the grated platform that mounts the AQD at Thompsons Beach in Feb or March 2023. This will be effort #3 with USGS divers.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-015-FA.
Location:
Deleware Bay
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 39.25777815 | South: 39.14710271 | West: -75.05722046 | East: -74.89517212 |
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.
| 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 | |
| Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
| Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| ADCP | --- | Current | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) |
