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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-659-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Klamath Estuary Sampling 2024

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Landscape Response to Disturbance (ZP00TJV)

Principal Investigator(s): Amy East

Affiliate Investigator(s): Liam Schenk, USGS OR Water Science Center Jenny Curtis, USGS CA Water Science Center

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect surface samples of sediment in Klamath estuary, to characterize salmonid habitat.

Vehicle(s): Explorer G62-2733K

Start Port/Location: Klamath, CA

End Port/Location: Klamath, CA

Start Date: 2024-10-23

End Date: 2024-10-26

Equipment Used: GPS, Van Veen

Information to be Derived: sediment grain size

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Grab samples of recently deposited sediment were collected along the shoreline by kayak. Bottom samples were collected with a BMH-60 sampler from a jet-boat.

Staff: Amy Foxgrover, Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-680-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-650-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-676-FA.

Location:

Klamath estuary, northern California

Boundaries
North: 41.56010522 South: 41.50086385 West: -124.09744263 East: -123.96286011

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Van Veen --- Biology
Geology

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