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

Field Activity 2014-657-FA

Identifier 2014-657-FA
Purpose Characterize tidal flat and neashore benthic habitats response to large-scale wetland restoration and climate change; quantify suspended and bed load sediment transport; map seagrass distributions; map geomorphic change
Location Skokomish Delta, Hood Canal, WA
Summary grainsize data on FAD
Info derived grain Size, carbon, invertebrate biomass/community structure, suspended and bedload sediment flux over tide cycle; seagrass distribution; nearshore and channel change
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity B-06-13-PS Other staff, Chris Curran and Steve Rubin, are not in the Assign Staff scroll even though they are USGS.
Projects
Platform
15-ft Whaler
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Potlatch, WA 2014-08-11
End Potlatch, WA 2014-08-13
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -123.203
East -123.00994873
North 47.44480754
South 47.28946656

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Eric Grossman
Crew members
Eric Grossman
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Eric Grossman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Chris Curran (USGS), Steve Rubin (USGS), Skokomish Indian Tribe

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar, Time Series
Data type: Surveys (biological), CTD, Current, Depth, Temperature, Tide, Turbidity, Wave, Photo, Video, Navigation, Transects, Biology, Geology, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sediment trap Sediment Properties, Geology (no data reported)
sample Surveys (biological) (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
temperature Temperature (no data reported)
currentmeter Current (no data reported)
turbiditymeter Turbidity (no data reported)
wavegauge Wave (no data reported)
tidemeter Tide (no data reported)
Sensors - pressure Depth (no data reported)
video Video (no data reported)
camera Photo (no data reported)
topographic equipment Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Ponar grab sampler Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Moorings - Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity