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

Field Activity 2016-612-FA

Identifier 2016-612-FA
Also known as Feb mussel sediment
Purpose Fine-grained bed sediment at caged mussel sites will be analyzed for contaminants to compare with mussel tissue burdens and summer sediment composition.
Location Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Summary Surface sediment from nine sites was collected.
Info derived particle size/carbon analysis on FAD 2/26/2016 Sediment grain size, organic carbon content, trace metals, PAH, PCB loads.
Comments Information specialist: volunteers and technicians from Washington State will be collecting information about field activities.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Tacoma, WA 2016-02-05
End Tacoma, WA 2016-02-10
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -122.986
East -122.14046805
North 48.15280244
South 47.0680552

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Renee K TakesuePamela L Swarzenski
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Renee K Takesue
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Kathy Conn, USGS Washington Water Science Center

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Navigation, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Handheld GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Hand-grab sample Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity