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

Field Activity 2016-355-FA

Identifier 2016-355-FA
Purpose Collect surface sediment, porewater samples, and visual observations.
Location Waccasassa Bay, FL
Summary Purpose-recon for Hurricane Hermine deposits. USGS staff went to the river mouth and saw some very indistinct event layers. Found a large wrack deposit upstream. Tried to collect pore water samples, but had difficulties below 70 cm depth.
Info derived Effects of Hurricane Hermine
Comments High tide when we entered the river.
Projects
Platform
Jon Boat
Vehicles
Ford F-350 Dually - Silver (GSA)
Itinerary
Start St Petersburg, FL 2016-09-22
End St. Petersburg, FL 2016-09-22
Bounds
West -82.81082153
East -82.79564736
North 29.17325992
South 29.15772374

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Christopher G SmithTerrence A McCloskey
Crew members
Nicholas J Zaremba
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Nicholas J Zaremba
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Photo, Profiles, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Peat Corer No peat cores were collected. Biology, Geology (no data expected)
GPS Pole No location or elevation data were collected. Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data expected)
Camera, Digital, Hand Held 40 photos taken, saved to the server gs>stpetersburgfl.g.Projects.CliCC>SSIEES>Data>2016>335FA(16CCT06)>RAW>Photos>DCIM Photo (no data expected)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity