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Field Activity Details for field activity ER212WA

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AKA: none

Other ID: E-R2-12-WA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Effects of Elwha River dam removal (MU093)

Principal Investigator(s): Amy Draut, Amy East

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Amy Draut

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Total station owned by USGS Tacoma (Washington Water Science Center)

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Elwha River, WA

End Port/Location: Elwha River, WA

Start Date: 2012-08-24

End Date: 2012-08-30

Equipment Used: Total Station, samples, CobbleCam, camera

Information to be Derived: Topographic data and grain size of river bed

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Amy Draut

Affiliate Staff:
Pauline Perkins - volunteer

Notes: Related to Elwha River work in April 2012.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Amy Draut
Pauline Perkins - volunteer

Location:

WA

Boundaries
North: 49.75 South: 45.25 West: -127.75 East: -116.25

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

Draut, A.E., and Ritchie, A.C., 2015, Sedimentology of new fluvial deposits on the Elwha River, Washington, USA, formed during large-scale dam removal: River Research and Applications, v. 31 no. 1, 42â61 p., doi: 10.1002/rra.2724.

East, A.E., Pess, G.R., Bountry, J.A., Magirl, C.S., Ritchie, A.C., Logan, J.B., Randle, T.J., Mastin, M.C., Minear, J.T., Duda, J.J., Liermann, M.C., McHenry, M.L., Beechie, T.J., and Shafroth, P.B., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: River channel and floodplain geomorphic change: Geomorphology, v. 228, pp. 765–786, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.08.028.

Warrick, J., Bountry, J.A., East, A., Magirl, C.S., Randle, T.J., Gelfenbaum, G.R., Ritchie, A.C., Pess, G.R., Leung, V., Duda, J., 2015, Large-scale dam removal on the Elwha River, Washington, USA: source-to-sink sediment budget and synthesis: Geomorphology, v. 246, pp. 729–750, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.01.010.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Total Station --- Benchmarks
Profiles
Transects
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
CobbleCam --- Photo
camera --- Photo

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