The proposed plan will use remote sensing techniques and targeted in-situ observations to monitor the post-restoration evolution of beaches, dunes, vegetative cover, and sediment budgets at beach and dune restoration sites specified in the RFP. We will use these data to evaluate if/how restoration projects improved ecological outcomes and decreased storm vulnerability relative to unaltered environments, thereby providing input necessary for estimating cost-effectiveness. The work as part of this field activity will focus on in-situ monitoring of sediment transport and water-quality in creeks within two of the restored marsh/dune sites.
This specific activity is for the recovery of the AQD platform at Thompsons Beach, NJ.
Location
Deleware Bay
Summary
Successfully recovered platform (mooring 1152DE) with an upward-looking Nortek Aquadopp. Raw time-series data collected by this instrument is located on the USGS WHSC server under the 'stg' folder. The data will undergo a QAQC process before it is released publicly in ~Fall 2023 using the USGS data-release-builder.
This is part of the NFWF NJ project. See FA 2022-013-FA for more information about 2022 and early 2023 NFWF NJ data collection.
Info derived
Pressure and water velocities inside a Thompsons Beach marsh channel.
Comments
This is part of the NFWF NJ project. See FA 2022-013-FA . We were not able to successfully recover the grated platform that mounts the AQD at Thompsons Beach in Feb or March 2023. This will be effort #3 with USGS divers.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-015-FA.
Time-series measurements of oceanographic and water quality data collected at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, USA, September 2018 to September 2019 and March 2022 to May 2023
