| Identifier | TD211PS | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | T-D2-11-PS | ||||||||
| Purpose | Long-term measurement of currents, waves, and acoustic backscatter | ||||||||
| Description | United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Jon Warrick. Deploy and maintain two benthic tripods with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), underwater cameras, optical backscatter sensors (OBS) data of field activity T-D2-11-PS in Offshore of the Elwha River delta from 09/08/2011 to 09/13/2011 | ||||||||
| Location | Offshore of the Elwha River delta | ||||||||
| Summary | tripod photos submitted to FAD on 6/7/2017 by Melissa Foley | ||||||||
| Info derived | current velocities, wave height, period and directions, water turbidity from acoustic and optical backscatterance | ||||||||
| Comments | These are long-term tripods that are resupplied with batteries, zincs, and other materials on a 6 month interval. ELW11A1T, ELW11B1T Staff information imported from InfoBank Joanne Ferreira Jamie Grover Hank Chezar Non USGS data manager = Jon Warrick | ||||||||
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| Activity | Deploy and maintain two benthic tripods with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), underwater cameras, optical backscatter sensors (OBS) |
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2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
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| Principal investigators | Jonathan Warrick | ||||
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| Affiliate principal | Jon Warrick | ||||
| Affiliate staff | Jamie Grover |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Time Series |
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| Data type: | Current, Turbidity, Photo, Mooring (physical oceanography) |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| acousticdoppler | Current | (no data reported) | |
| opticalbackscattersensor | Turbidity | (no data reported) | |
| underwatercamera | Video, Photo | 1 | |
| tripod | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Characterization of seafloor photographs near the mouth of the Elwha River during the first two years of dam removal (2011-2013) | underwatercamera | We characterized seafloor sediment conditions near the mouth of the Elwha River from underwater photographs taken every four hours from September 2011 to December 2013. A digital camera was affixed to a tripod that was deployed in approximately 10 meters of water. Each photograph was qualitatively characterized as one of six categories: (1) base, or no sediment, (2) low sediment, (3) medium sediment, (4) high sediment, (5) turbid, or (6) kelp. For base conditions, no sediment was present on the seafloor. Low sediment conditions were characterized by a light dusting of sediment, medium sediment conditions were characterized by a layer of sediment that covered all rock surfaces but did not obscure the relief of the seafloor, high sediment conditions were characterized by a layer of sediment that covered all rock surfaces and obscured the relief of the seafloor. During turbid conditions, suspended sediment in the water column obscured the view of the seafloor, and during kelp conditions, blades of kelp covered the camera lens, blocking our view of the seafloor. | Melissa M Foley |
| Oceanographic measurements obtained offshore of the Elwha River delta in coordination with the Elwha River Restoration Project, Washington, USA, 2010-2014 | tripod | Time-series data of velocity, pressure, turbidity, conductivity, and temperature were collected near the mouth of the Elwha River, Washington, USA, from December 2010 through October 2014, for the Department of Interior's Elwha River Restoration project. As part of this project, the U.S. Geological Survey studied the effects of renewed sediment supplies on the coastal ecosystems before, during, and following the removal of two dams, Elwha and Glines Canyon, from the Elwha River. Removal of the dams reintroduced sediment stored in the reservoirs to the river, and the river moved much of this sediment to the coast. | Joanne C. Thede |
Ferreira, J.C.T.; and Warrick, J., 2017, Oceanographic measurements obtained offshore of the Elwha River delta in coordination with the Elwha River Restoration Project, Washington, USA, 2010-2014 (ver. 1.1 May 2018): , https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CR5RW8.
Foley, M.M.; and Warrick, J.A., 2017, Characterization of seafloor photographs near the mouth of the Elwha River during the first two years of dam removal (2011-2013): , https://doi.org/10.5066/F7MC8XHX.