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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-638-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Pending

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Samantha McGill

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Samantha McGill

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To examine the relationship between particle size and bulk density for San Francisco Bay sediments.

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Start Date: 2024-04-25

End Date: 2024-04-26

Equipment Used: Push corer, Gomex Core

Information to be Derived: particle size, bulk density, percent organic and inorganic carbon.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collect 4 sets of triplicate push cores, subsampled from a Gomex corer, from different channel sites in Northern San Francisco Bay.

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Location:

Corte Madera Bay; San Pablo Bay; Suisun Bay; Grizzly Bay;

Boundaries
North: 38.15399722 South: 37.79459282 West: -122.53326416 East: -121.9317627

Platform(s):


R/V Jewell

Publications

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Data Acquired

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

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