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

Field Activity 2017-035-FA

Identifier 2017-035-FA
Purpose Collect marsh sediment cores in Herring River and Great Barnstable Marsh estuaries on Cape Cod to examine environmental geochemistry and depositional history
Location Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Sample collection was completed and data were released in Science Base
Info derived Physical and chemical properties of marsh sediment cores
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-016-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-016-FA
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2017-05-25
End Woods Hole, MA 2017-10-27
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.47039316
East -69.90063816
North 42.0863757
South 41.62198826

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kevin D KroegerMeagan J Eagle
Crew members
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Adrian C Mann
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Faming Wang, MBL Jim Tang, MBL

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Garmin GPS 76 Navigation (no data reported)
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
HR_cores Push corer (wh) Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles