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Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-603-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: GMP25

Status: Pending

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

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

Contact(s): Daniel Nowacki

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect information on sediment accretion and erosion.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Petaluma, CA

End Port/Location: Petaluma, CA

Start Date: 2025-06-09

End Date: 2026-03-31

Equipment Used: totalstation, instrumentmooring

Information to be Derived: Measuring sediment fluxes in Gray’s Marsh on the Petaluma River and in the river mainstem, and measuring SSC in San Pablo Bay

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

Petaluma River, Gray's Marsh, San Pablo Bay

Boundaries
North: 38.22496 South: 38.08676 West: -122.60708 East: -122.44963

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
totalstation --- Navigation
instrumentmooring --- Geology
Mooring (physical oceanography)

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