Field Activity 2025-634-FA

Identifier 2025-634-FA
Alternate names 20250506_Elwha_River
Purpose To collect aerial imagery document Elwha River response to Elwha dam removals at a temporal and spatial scale sufficient to inform theoretical and physical process models and improve understanding of short- and long-term fluvial and coastal responses to large perturbations in base level and sediment inputs
Location Elwha River
Summary collected 3815 primarily near-nadir images.
Info derived Per flight: orthoimagery and elevation models (approximately 10cm resolution), recording sediment, wood, water, and vegetation. Across flights: erosion and deposition volumes, changes in grain size, changes in wood location, distribution, abundance, changes in channel form and location, changes in vegetation.
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-688-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2025-622-FA.
Projects
Platform
Airplane
Itinerary
Start Port Angeles, WA 2025-05-06
End Port Angeles, WA 2025-05-06
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -123.64
East -123.38
North 48.16
South 47.93

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Andrew C Ritchie
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Andrew C Ritchie
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Jonathan Warrick, USGS; Amy East, USGS; Andrew Stevens, USGS; Josh Logan, USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery
Data type: Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft Photo (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity