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

Field Activity 2022-011-FA

Identifier 2022-011-FA
Purpose Continuous monitoring of surface water and pore-water depth, salinity, and temperature, soil temperature and meteorological data, and pore-water collection for chemistry analysis in estuaries across Cape Cod, MA to examine environmental geochemistry and the impact of impoundments and restoration of salt marsh environments.
Location Falmouth, West Falmouth, Woods Hole, Waquoit, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Surface water and porewater collections are completed. Samples are stored in WHSC walk-in freezers and refrigerators or distributed to external laboratories for analysis. Gas flux and CTD measurements are completed. Raw data files and field notes are stored in WHSC network folders.
Info derived Time-series sensor data including eddy co-variance flux tower measurements of methane and carbon dioxide; meteorological measurements; soil temperature; well measurements of CTD and methane; creek measurements using a YSI multi-parameter sonde and ProOceanus mini-CH4. Discrete measurements of CO2 and CH4 flux from different wetland vegetation sites will correspond with pore-water collections for chemical constituents (including DOC,DIC, Alkalinity, Chloride, Sulfate) and multi-parameter YSI measurements.
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod. Specific locations include the Falmouth area (Woods Hole, West Falmouth, Flat Pond and Sage Lot Pond in Waquoit) and the Wellfleet area (Herring River - area of Phragmites and another of Typha) Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-018-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-019-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-026-FA.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2022-01-13
End Woods Hole, MA 2022-12-31
Days in the field 30
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2021-01-13 2021-01-13 Maintenance, data download – Wellfleet (Herring River Phrag, Herring River Typha). Sophie Kuhl, Simone Gibson
2022-02-11 2022-02-11 EC flux tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Simone Gibson
2022-03-08 2022-03-08 EC flux tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Simone Gibson
2022-04-01 2022-04-01 Porewater collections from sites around the Herring River Basin. Meagan Eagle, Shannon Valley
2022-04-08 2022-04-08 EC flux tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Simone Gibson
2022-04-21 2022-04-21 Removed field installations from Mashpee field sites (Flat Pond Phrag and Sage Lot Pond).
2022-04-25 2022-04-25 Removed field installations from Falmouth and Mashpee field sites (Flat Pond Typha, West Falmouth and Woods Hole).
2022-05-12 2022-05-12 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River. Wally Brooks, Simone Gibson.
2022-05-18 2022-05-18 Porewater sampling tips installed and porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin. EC flux tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Adrian Mann, Rebecca Sanders-DeMott, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2022-05-25 2022-05-25 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River. Wally Brooks, Simone Gibson.
2022-06-16 2022-06-16 Porewater samples collected from the Old County Typha EC Flux Tower site. Meagan Eagle, Rachel Einecker
2022-06-23 2022-06-23 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River. Wally Brooks, Simone Gibson.
2022-06-28 2022-06-28 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Sophie Kuhl, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2022-07-07 2022-07-07 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River - full tidal timeseries sampling. Wally Brooks, Simone Gibson, Sydney Nick, Cora Pohlman.
2022-07-14 2022-07-14 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2022-08-05 2022-08-05 RTK well sites. Sydney Nick.
2022-08-08 2022-08-08 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2022-08-09 2022-08-09 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River. Wally Brooks, Nick Wawangla.
2022-08-16 2022-08-16 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin. Installed deeper wells at some sites due to drought conditions. Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Simone Gibson
2022-08-25 2022-08-25 EC flux tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2022-09-14 2022-09-14 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Sydney Nick
2022-09-19 2022-09-19 Surface water sampling and gas flux measurements in Herring River. Wally Brooks, Sophie Kuhl.
2022-10-13 2022-10-13 EC flux tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Wally Brooks.
2022-10-21 2022-10-21 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Sydney Nick
2022-11-03 2022-11-03 Tower maintenance and Herring River surface water gas flux measurements and water sample collections. Sophie Kuhl, Wally Brooks.
2022-11-18 2022-11-18 Porewater samples collected from sites around the Herring River Basin and EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl, Sydney Nick
2022-12-12 2022-12-12 Routine EC flux tower maintenance, retrieving well CTDs and deploying freshly calibrated CTDs. Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Sophie Kuhl.
Bounds
West -70.67504883
East -69.87304688
North 42.11044896
South 41.50034959

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kevin D KroegerMeagan J Eagle
Crew members
Thomas W Brooks
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Adrian C Mann
Scientist, Staff
Sanders-Demott, Rebecca
Scientist, Staff
Sydney K Nick
Scientist, Staff
Gibson, Simone
Scientist, Staff
Kuhl, Sophie
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Thomas W Brooks
Specialist, Information
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Specialist, Information
Adrian C Mann
Specialist, Information
Sanders-Demott, Rebecca
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Time Series, Geochemical, Biological Field Study, Sampling, Location-Elevation, Environmental Data
Data type: Chemistry, Methane, CO2, Geochemical Monitoring, Experiments (geochemical), Experiments (biological), Transects, CTD

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Masterflex Portable Peristaltic Pump Chemistry (no data reported)
Groundwater wells (PVC) Chemistry (no data reported)
Creek moorings Chemistry (no data reported)
Push Point porewater samplers Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, Methane, Nutrients (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
Eddy Co-Variance Flux Tower Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
InSitu BaroTroll 500 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Weather Station Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
ProOceanus mini CH4 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Temperature Logger Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
LI-COR 7810 CH4 CO2 analyzer Experiments (geochemical) (no data reported)
Chambers for gas flux measurement Experiments (geochemical) (no data reported)
RTK Transects, Benchmarks (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
static_chambers_fluxes_2021 Static chamber fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from coastal wetlands on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts and supporting environmental data, 2021. Measurements of carbon dioxide and methane fluxes from static chambers were collected in 2021 to assess carbon exchange at coastal wetland sites across a range of impounded and natural, tidally unrestricted conditions in several villages within Falmouth, MA that vary in salinity, management status, and water level. Rebecca Sanders-Demott
static_chamber_fluxes_2021 Static chamber fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from coastal wetlands on Upper Cape Cod, Massachusetts and supporting environmental data, 2021 Rebecca Sanders-Demott
phramites_eddycovariance_ver2 Eddy covariance fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane from the Herring River in Wellfleet, MA (ver 2.0, June 2022). Eddy covariance measurements of net ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and methane were collected continuously at half-hourly intervals to assess the magnitude and drivers of carbon exchange in an impounded coastal wetland. Rebecca Sanders-Demott

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity