Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-009-FA

Other ID: Marsh Island New Bedford 2025 - 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)

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

Information Specialist(s): Emily Tacke, Robert Bales, Jennifer Cramer, Jennifer O'keefe Suttles, Meagan Eagle

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

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.

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Start Port/Location: Fairhaven, MA

End Port/Location: Fairhaven, MA

Start Date: 2025-01-02

End Date: 2025-12-31

Equipment Used: RTK, Altum-PT, YellowScan Mapper +, In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD), Sampling scoop, Water sampler, Bottom platform, Aeropoint targets, Skydio X10, Emlid RS3

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:

Notes: This will be an ongoing study and would like it to be an event type field activity.
Multiple Information specialists due to group overlap.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-025-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-004-FA.

Location:

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

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