1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2015-043-FA

Identifier 2015-043-FA
Purpose Collect marsh cores around Bass Creek to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Bass Creek, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Grain size, moisture content, carbon content
Info derived Geochemistry
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-042-FA
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2015-06-10
End Woods Hole, MA 2015-06-10
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.2879
East -70.23297399
North 41.72510141
South 41.70145632

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Meagan J Eagle
Crew members
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Daniel M Roberts
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
RestoredMarshCore Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16 Meagan J Eagle
RestoredMarshCores Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16 Meagan J Eagle

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity