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Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-025-FA

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Other ID: Marsh Island New Bedford - CED/AIM/EG

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Aerial Imaging & Mapping (AIM) (LQ000GU1400), Biochemical Processes & Budget (LQ00.U0D01), Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems ?mid-Atlantic (LQ00UHB)

Principal Investigator(s): Meagan Eagle, Sandra Brosnahan, Neil Kamal Ganju

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Emily Tacke, Meagan Eagle, Jennifer Cramer, Robert Bales

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Transects, Imagery: Photo, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring, Sampling: Geology, Sampling: Chemistry, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor the hydrodynamics and sediment supply to a newly engineered system. Buzzards Bay Coalition and their partners have just completed Phase I of this project to create an engineered salt marsh on a former fill area. Sediment supply is a key factor in salt marsh sustainability with rising sea-level, this site provides a unique opportunity to study the establishment of the engineered system under the natural forcing of the tides and water flow.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Fairhaven, MA

End Port/Location: Fairhaven, MA

Start Date: 2023-10-25

End Date: 2023-12-31

Equipment Used: Spectra Precision SP80, YellowScan Mapper +, Aeropoint targets, Altum-PT, In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD), Sampling scoop, Water sampler, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time-series data of water level, currents, flow/discharge, waves, turbidity, and other water-quality parameters (temperature, salinity, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen, pH, fDOM, blue-green algae). Supplemental water samples will be collected and analyzed for total suspended-sediment concentration and loss-on-ignition. Grain-size distribution will be determined from sediment samples collected the marsh creek bed. Aerial mapping will provide full elevation coverage and multispectral orthoimage data. Biochem time-series sensor data are groundwater well CTD measurements.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collect time-series data and supplemental data to determine the movement of suspended sediment into and out of the creek mouth that connects the engineered salt marsh to the Acushnet River.

Staff: Jin-Si Over, Seth Ackerman, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles, Olivia De Meo

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This will be an ongoing study and would like it to be an event type field activity. Emily Tacke is also staffing but not in the system.
Multiple Information specialists due to group overlap.

Location:

Marsh Island site New Bedford Harbor, Acushnet River, Fairhaven, MA..

Boundaries
North: 41.6531785 South: 41.64949085 West: -70.91820717 East: -70.91380835

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Spectra Precision SP80 --- Navigation
YellowScan Mapper + --- LIDAR
Lidar products (Lidar data collected with YellowScan Mapper+ and provided as a point cloud and gridded terrain and surface model. )
YelloScan Mapper+ Images (RGB images taken with the SONY module on the YellowScan Mapper+. )
Aeropoint targetsused as ground control points for the UAS dataNavigation
Transects
Profiles
AeroPoint Data (AeroPoints that are used for ground control of the UAS flights)
Altum-PTused to collect multispectral imageryPhoto
Multispectral imagery (Multispectral aerial imagery collected from UAS (DJI Matrice 600) equipped with the Altum-PT. Image locations are provided in a CSV. Bands include (RGB, NIR, Red-Edge, Thermal))
Multispectral Orthomosaic (A 5-band pansharpened multispectral orthomosaic (R,G,B,NIR, Red-edge).)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) --- Geochemical Monitoring
Conductivity
Depth
Temperature
Sampling scoop --- Geology
Water sampler --- Chemistry
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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