Field Activity 2015-044-FA

Identifier 2015-044-FA
Purpose Collect marsh cores around Herring River to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Herring River, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Grain size, water 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 2015-06-18
End Woods Hole, MA 2015-06-19
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.0742
East -70.05150674
North 41.94273378
South 41.92051978

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
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 1

Datasets


Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
HR_cores Push corer (wh) Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
HR_2015_to_January_2020 Continuous monitoring data from Herring River wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
HR_meta_2015_to_January_2020 Continuous monitoring data from Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020 including water level, salinity, soil temperature, and photosynthetically active radiation and others. Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity