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

Field Activity 2026-002-FA

Identifier 2026-002-FA
Alternate names HR_GHG
Purpose To collect data related to the restoration of the Herring River coastal ecosystem.
Location Wellfleet, MA
Info derived GHG fluxes, porewater salinity and elevation, geochemistry of water and sediments.
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from the following field activities: 2025-002-FA; 2024-001-FA; 2023-004-FA, 2022-011-FA, 2021-026-FA, 2020-019-FA, 2019-018-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2025-002-FA.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Wellfleet, MA 2026-01-01
End Wellfleet, MA 2026-12-31
Days in the field 20
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2026-03-13 2026-03-13 Eagle and O'Keefe Suttles to download and check on gear post storm.
2026-04-10 2026-04-10 Eagle to trouble shoot 7700 at HRo and update Smartflux firmware to 2.4.4. at HRo and HRd
2026-04-16 2026-04-16 Eagle to HRd to remove 7700 and restart logging. 7700 installed at HRo and logging resumed.
Bounds
West -70.08934021
East -70.02204895
North 41.96714867
South 41.91556322

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Meagan J Eagle
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Time Series
Data type: Chemistry, Geochemical Monitoring

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Groundwater wells (PVC) Chemistry (no data reported)
Masterflex Portable Peristaltic Pump Chemistry (no data reported)
Pore water sampling Chemistry (no data reported)
Push Point porewater samplers Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, Methane, Nutrients (no data reported)
Eddy Co-Variance Flux Tower Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
InSitu BaroTroll 500 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity