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

Field Activity 2024-017-FA

Identifier 2024-017-FA
Alternate names NSF Lateral Flux 2024
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 Yarmouth and Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Info derived Time-series sensor data including water quality parameters, surface water level and flow, meteorological measurements; soil temperature; groundwater well CTD measurements. Seasonal tidal cycle sampling (surface water and porewater collections; static chamber greenhouse gas measurements).
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2024-03-26
End Yarmouth, MA 2024-12-31
Days in the field 30
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2024-03-26 2024-03-26 Installation of base collars for static chamber gas flux measurements and weather stations at Bass Creek and Harding's Beach salt marsh sites. Meagan Eagle, Emily Tacke, Sophie Kuhl, Kate Morkeski.
2024-04-01 2024-04-01 Deployment of Sontek IQ at Harding's Beach. Meagan Eagle, Emily Tacke.
2024-04-05 2024-04-05 Deployment of Sontek IQ and YSI EXO2 at Bass Creek and YSI EXO2 at Harding's Beach. Meagan Eagle, Kate Morkeski
2024-04-09 2024-04-09 Tidal cycle sampling at Bass Creek (surface water, porewater, GHG flux measurements); well installation, groundwater and temperature logger deployments. Meagan Eagle, Emily Tacke, Kevin Kroeger, Joe Tamborski, Moira Taylor, Aleck Wang, Kate Morkeski.
2024-04-10 2024-04-10 Tidal cycle sampling at Harding's Beach (surface water, porewater, GHG flux measurements); well installation, groundwater and temperature logger deployments. Meagan Eagle, Emily Tacke, Kevin Kroeger, Joe Tamborski, Moira Taylor, Aleck Wang, Kate Morkeski.
2024-04-17 2024-04-17 Relocated IQ and EXO upstream of first deployment location due to shallow water depth and sand covering IQ. IQ did not communicate, returned to lab for repair. Emily Tacke and Meagan Eagle
2024-04-19 2024-04-19 Redeploy IQ with new cable in upstream location. Meagan Eagle Tarun Gonneea
2024-05-01 2024-05-01 Install GHG bases at Taylor Bray Farm. Meagan Eagle, Sophie Kuhl
2024-05-17 2024-05-17 Sensor maintenance for Bass Creek and Harding's Beach tidal creek instrument deployments. Emily Tacke, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
Bounds
West -70.32623291
East -69.91973877
North 41.77336007
South 41.62776153

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
Tacke, Emily
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Joe Tamborski (ODU); Aleck Wang (WHOI)
Affiliate staff Moira Taylor (ODU); Sophie Kuhl (WHOI); Kate Morkeski (WHOI); Evan Lechner (WHOI)

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
RTK Transects, Benchmarks (no data reported)
LI-COR 7810 CH4 CO2 analyzer Experiments (geochemical) (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Temperature Logger Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
InSitu BaroTroll 500 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
Push Point porewater samplers Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, Methane, Nutrients (no data reported)
Groundwater wells (PVC) Chemistry (no data reported)
Masterflex Portable Peristaltic Pump Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity