Field Activity 2015-038-FA

Identifier 2015-038-FA
Purpose Collect pore water and surface water samples, marsh cores and time-series water quality and flow data from Sage Lot Pond to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary.
Location Sage Lot Pond, Mashpee, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Collected pore-water and surface-water samples to be used for nutrient analyses. Grain-size, carbon content. Water quality, flow data.
Info derived Geochemistry
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program in Sage Lot Pond.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2015-04-17
End Woods Hole, MA 2015-04-17
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.5223
East -70.5006218
North 41.56164657
South 41.54790461

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Meagan J Eagle
Crew members
Adrian Green
Scientist, Staff
Michael Casso
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Daniel M Roberts
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Priya Ganguli, WHOI Rose Martin, URI Sophie Chu, WHOI

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Conductivity, Current, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, Nutrients, ORP, pH, Sediment Properties, Temperature, Turbidity, Navigation, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
YSI multiparameter sonde Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, pH, Temperature (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Meteorology, CTD, Temperature, pH, CO2, Radon, Conductivity, Current, Dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Fluorescence, Wave, ORP, Tide, Methane, Depth, Light, Nitrate, Gas Hydrates, Density, Sediment Properties, Osmometic Pressure, Chlorophyll, Nutrients, Pressure (no data reported)
ADCP Current (no data reported)
Sensor - turbidity Turbidity (no data reported)
Visual navigation Navigation (no data reported)
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology 1
Pore water sampling Chemistry (no data reported)
Water sampler Chemistry (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
SLP_GHGFlux_Core_2015 Push corer (wh) Static chamber gas fluxes and carbon and nitrogen isotope content of age-dated sediment cores from a Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Massachusetts, 2013-2015 Meagan J Eagle

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
SageLotPond_GreatPond Geochemical data supporting investigation of solute and particle cycling and fluxes from two tidal wetlands on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2012-19. Areas of study are Sage Lot Pond and Great Pond. Four separate data files. Thomas W Brooks
SLPCreekData Time-series of biogeochemical and flow data from a tidal salt-marsh creek, Sage Lot Pond, Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts (2012-2016) Adrian C Mann
SLPCreekData_ver2 Time-series of biogeochemical and flow data from a tidal salt-marsh creek, Sage Lot Pond, Waquoit Bay, Massachusetts (2012-2016). Revised in July 2023 to include CO2 data. Adrian C Mann

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity