| Identifier | 2017-006-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Evaluate sediment dynamics and sediment fluxes in Grand Bay estuary system over tidal and seasonal timescales using long-term instrumented mooring deployments and tidal cycle surveys. Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
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| Location | Grand Bay, Alabama/Mississippi, United States | ||||||||
| Info derived | Currents, waves, suspended sediment concentrations (SSC), temperature, salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, Chla, and dissolved organic matter (fDom). | ||||||||
| Comments | Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-034-FA The CTD is a "Sea-Bird SBE19" | ||||||||
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Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Neil Kamal Ganju | ||||||||
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| Data category: | Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series |
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| Data type: | CTD, Current, Navigation, Chemistry, Mooring (physical oceanography) |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl | CTD | (no data reported) | |
| ADCP | Current | 1 | |
| Garmin GPS 76 | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Water sampler | Chemistry | (no data reported) | |
| Bottom platform | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 3 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Grand_Bay_ADCP | ADCP | Discharge measurements made in Bayou Heron and Bayou Middle, Grand Bay, Mississippi in January 2017 | Daniel J Nowacki |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Mean_Hs | Bottom platform | Tab-delimited file containing modeled and observed weekly mean wave heights | Kathryn Smith |
| Bathy_grid | Bottom platform | Bathymetric grid and shoreline data | Kathryn Smith |
| RWE_wind | Bottom platform | Summarized weekly wind data | Kathryn Smith |