Monitor the hydrodynamics and sediment supply to a newly engineered system. Buzzards Bay Coalition and their partners have just completed Phase I of this project to create an engineered salt marsh on a former fill area. Sediment supply is a key factor in salt marsh sustainability with rising sea-level, this site provides a unique opportunity to study the establishment of the engineered system under the natural forcing of the tides and water flow.
Location
Marsh Island site New Bedford Harbor, Acushnet River, Fairhaven, MA..
Info derived
Time-series data of water level, currents, flow/discharge, waves, turbidity, and other water-quality parameters (temperature, salinity, chlorophyll, dissolved oxygen, pH, fDOM, blue-green algae). Supplemental water samples will be collected and analyzed for total suspended-sediment concentration and loss-on-ignition. Aerial mapping will provide full elevation coverage and multispectral orthoimage data. Biochem time-series sensor data are groundwater well CTD measurements.
Comments
This will be an ongoing study and would like it to be an event type field activity.
Multiple Information specialists due to group overlap.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-025-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2024-004-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2025-009-FA.
Bales and Suttles removing the Exo, Dwave, and fence post mount at site 1164 due to possible damage from ice. The plan is to reinstall instrumentation and fence post when ice is less likely to be present at the site.
2026-03-16
2026-03-16
Bales and Suttles collected 12 waters samples from pedestrian bridge for NTU to SSC calibration.
2026-04-15
2026-04-15
Jen Cramer, Sandy Brosnahan, and Amit Millo will be collecting UAS lidar and RGB imagery to produce a DEM and orthomosaic during the leaf-off period for Marsh Island.
