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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-660-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Restored Marsh Accretion

Status: Pending

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Nowacki

Affiliate Investigator(s): Karen Thorne

Information Specialist(s): Daniel Nowacki

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To measure accretion on restored marshes

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Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2024-10-21

End Date: 2024-12-31

Equipment Used: Radio (rover), Radio (base), Russian peat corer

Information to be Derived: accretion rates in restored marshes

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Coring, vegetation surveys,

Staff: Jessica Lacy, Samantha McGill

Affiliate Staff:
Michelle D'aguillo

Notes:

Location:

San Francsico Bay marshes

Boundaries
North: 38.19329471 South: 37.31775185 West: -122.57446289 East: -121.75048828

Platform(s):

photo of M.T. Williams
M.T. Williams

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Radio (rover) --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Radio (base) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Russian peat corer --- Geology
Surveys (geochemical)

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