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Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-309-FA

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Other ID: Tyndall Reefense vibracoring on R/V Apalachee

Status: Pending

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Coastal Sediment Availability and Flux - CSAF (GX.25.MN00.M0Y60.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Emily Wei, Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s): Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; US Army Corps of Engineers

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt, Emily Wei

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Vibracore acquisition in support of efforts to construct an artificial oyster reef.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually Grey (GSA)

Start Port/Location: Panama City, FL

End Port/Location: Panama City, FL

Start Date: 2023-04-23

End Date: 2023-04-27

Equipment Used: Grab Sampler, Rossfelder P3-C Vibracorer, SP90 GNSS Receiver

Information to be Derived: Sediment vibracores

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Kyle Kelso, Benjamin Galbraith, Nancy DeWitt, Emily Wei

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-312-FA.
Personnel may change; will edit.

Location:

Panama City, FL, United States, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)

Boundaries
North: 30.15676461 South: 30.01333874 West: -85.71780396 East: -85.48324585

Platform(s):

photo of Barge
Barge
photo of Apalachee
Apalachee

Publications

Mahan, S.A., Krolczyk, E.T., Wei, E.A., Randall, S.M., and Bernier, J.C., 2024, Data Release for Luminescence: Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida estuarine sediment cores: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P142G7PC.

Wei, E.A., Randall, S., Bernier, J.C., Everhart, C.S., DeWitt, N.T., 2024, Sedimentologic Data From Vibracores Collected in 2023 From St. Andrew Bay, Florida: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1AFJDNE.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Grab Sampler --- Biology
Geology
Rossfelder P3-C Vibracorer --- Geology
2023-309-FA_CoreSites (Site location information and parameters for 2023-309-FA vibracores)
2023-309-FA_CorePhotos (High-resolution photographs for 2023-309-FA vibracores and script file used to populate imagery headers)
2023-309-FA_GrainSizeData (Grain-size data, summary statistics, summary plots, and data dictionary for 2023-309-FA vibracore samples)
2023-309-FA_AgeControl (Results of radiocarbon (14C) analyses and data dictionary for 2023-309-FA vibracore samples )
2023-309-FA_LossOnIgnition (Results of Loss on Ignition analyses from 2023-309-FA vibracore samples)
SP90 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
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