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Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-644-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Post-wildfire debris flow sampling

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):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sediment sampling on recently debris flows in wildfire-impacted areas .

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Buellton, CA

End Port/Location: Altadena, CA

Start Date: 2025-09-07

End Date: 2025-09-10

Equipment Used: camera, Handheld GPS, sampling equipment

Information to be Derived: sediment samples

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 50 samples.

Staff: Joshua Logan, Amy East

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Recent wildfire-impacted areas in Central and Southern California

Boundaries
North: 36.8092847 South: 33.69692269 West: -121.94824219 East: -116.88354492

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
sampling equipment --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Experiments (biological)
Sediment Properties

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