AKA: none
Other ID: H-1-02-NC,ENG02
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, USGS, Water Resources Division, Sacramento
Funding Program(s): Upper Yuba River Studies Program (MU294)
Principal Investigator(s): Charlie Alpers
Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles Alpers (USGS WRD Sacramento)
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Quantify the physical properties (grain size, density, organic content) and chemistry of surficial sediments deposited behind Englebright Dam.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Englebright Lake
End Port/Location: Englebright Lake
Start Date: 2002-10-03
End Date: 2002-10-11
Equipment Used: gravitycore, GPS, boxcore
Information to be Derived: grain size distribution, organic content, sediment bulk density, sediment geochemistry (mercury, methylmercury, trace metals).
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 29 box cores and 21 gravity cores were collected at 11 locations throughout the reservoir.
Staff: Noah Snyder
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Charles Alpers (USGS WRD Sacramento) - Chief Scientist
Noah Snyder (USGS Santa Cruz) - Scientist
Non USGS data manager = Charles Alpers
Location:
California
Boundaries | |||
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North: 39.2842 | South: 39.24555 | West: -121.27 | East: -121.22852 |
Platform(s):
Humphry |
Snyder, N.P., Allen, J.R., Dare, C., Hampton, M.A., Schneider, G., Wooley, R.J., Alpers, C.N., and Marvin-DiPasquale, M.C., 2004, Sediment Grain-Size and Loss-on-Ignition Analyses from 2002 Englebright Lake Coring and Sampling Campaigns: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1080, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20041080.
Snyder, N.P., Rubin, D.M., Alpers, C.N., Childs, J.R., Curtis, J.A., Flint, L.E., and Wright, S.A., 2004, Estimating accumulation rates and physical properties of sediment behind a dam: Englebright Lake, Yuba River, northern California: Water Resources Research, v. 40 no. 11, doi: 10.1029/2004wr003279.
Snyder, N.P., Wright, S.A., Alpers, C.N., Flint, L.E., Holmes, C.W., and Rubin, D.M., 2006, Reconstructing depositional processes and history from reservoir stratigraphy: Englebright Lake, Yuba River, northern California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 111 no. F4, doi: 10.1029/2005JF000451.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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gravitycore | --- | Geology | Station Information |
GPS | --- | Navigation | Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format Global positioning system (GPS) data h-1-02-nc.060 (Provisional best file) |
boxcore | --- | Biology Geology | Station Information |