Field Activity 2017-363-FA

Identifier 2017-363-FA
Alternate names 17CCT05
Purpose To collect sediment traps at erosion monitoring sites and peat cores within Grand Bay marshes.
Location Grand Bay, MS
Summary Retrieved 12 sediment plates and a water level logger, and collected 8 peat cores for post-Hurricane Nate assessment.
Info derived Marsh surface elevation, water level readings, sediment plates, peat cores
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
Chevy Suburban Silver
Itinerary
Start St Petersburg, FL 2017-10-17
End St Petersburg, FL 2017-10-19
Bounds
West -88.4564209
East -88.36181641
North 30.43683405
South 30.33391864

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Kathryn Smith
Crew members
Jessica A. Jacobs
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Chelsea A Stalk
Specialist, Information
Jessica A. Jacobs
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Tide, Photo, Benchmarks, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Digital Camera Photo, Video (no data reported)
Water Level Recorder Benchmarks (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)
Peat Corer Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity