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

Field Activity 2015-660-FA

Identifier 2015-660-FA
Also known as Sept rail line contaminant baselines
Purpose Field sampling for baseline contaminant levels in marshes adjacent to railroad tracks.
Location Puget Sound, Washington, United States
Summary Twenty five benthic grab samples of estuarine mud; four samples of POM on filters.
Info derived PAHs and other contaminant levels in marsh soil.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Olympia, Washington 2015-09-14
End Bayview, Washington 2015-09-18
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -122.827
East -121.97347005
North 48.89632394
South 46.97825879

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Pamela L Swarzenski
Crew members
Angela CML Tan
Scientist, Staff
Pamela L Swarzenski
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Angela CML Tan
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Navigation, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Handheld GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Ponar grab sampler Biology, Chemistry, Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Inorganic compositional data for fine-grained Puget Sound sediment along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line, September 2015 Ponar grab sampler Nearshore surface sediment was collected with a petit ponar grab sampler between April 22 and September 17, 2015, at five sites in Puget Sound, Washington. Four sites were adjacent to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe rail line in urban and non-urban areas, and one site was in an urban area that was not adjacent to the rail line. Total and near-total major, minor, trace, and rare earth element contents of the <0.063 mm sediment fraction were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy. These data accompany Takesue, R.K., and Campbell, P.L., 2019, Contaminant baselines and sediment provenance along the Puget Sound Energy Transport Corridor, 2015: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2018-1196, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20181196. Renee K Takesue