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

Field Activity 2019-006-FA

Identifier 2019-006-FA
Purpose The proposed plan will use remote sensing techniques and targeted in-situ observations to monitor the post-restoration evolution of beaches, dunes, vegetative cover, and sediment budgets at beach and dune restoration sites specified in the RFP. We will use these data to evaluate if/how restoration projects improved ecological outcomes and decreased storm vulnerability relative to unaltered environments, thereby providing input necessary for estimating cost-effectiveness. The work as part of this field activity will focus on in-situ monitoring of sediment transport and water-quality in creeks within two of the restored marsh/dune sites.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Stone Harbor and Thompsons Beach, New Jersey, United States, Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay.
Summary Deployment 1115B, 1116B, and 1119B: On December 4, 2018, the Sontek IQ Plus was configured to continue collecting data at mooring 1115B. A YSI EXO2 and RBR Dwave were deployed at mooring 1116B on a bottom lander platform. An SP80 RTK receiver was used to get the horizontal and vertical positions of 1115B and 1116B platforms, as well as a cross-sectional survey of the marsh channel for Sontek IQ Plus flow calculations. On December 5, 2018, a YSI EXO2 and RBR Dwave were deployed at 1119B.
Info derived Measure water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters. Flow/discharge. Water samples for suspended sediment concentration and organic content.
Comments Second turnaround of deployed time-series instruments. Funding Project: MN00GSM NFWF/Monitoring Beach Marsh GR18LQ00GSM2000 Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-048-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-056-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-059-FA
Projects
Platform
Muddy Waters
21 feet Maritme Defiant
Itinerary
Start Port Norris, NJ 2019-02-24
End Stone Harbor, NJ 2019-03-01
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -75.0724
East -74.6053
North 39.2449
South 38.9868

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Neil Kamal Ganju
Crew members
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Steven E Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Eric D. Marsjanik
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Steven E Suttles
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: Turbidity, Current, Geology, Photo, Benchmarks, Chemistry, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Moorings

1115B, 1116B, 1119B

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde Chlorophyll, Conductivity, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, Fluorescence, Nitrate, ORP, pH, Temperature, Turbidity (no data reported)
ADCP Current (no data reported)
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Wingscapes BirdCam Pro Photo, Video (no data reported)
RTK Transects, Benchmarks (no data reported)
Water sampler Chemistry 1
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
NFWFWaterSamples Water sampler Suspended-sediment concentration and loss-on-ignition from water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, collected between September 2018 and December 2022 Olivia A De Meo
NFWF_timeseries Bottom platform Time-series measurements of oceanographic and water quality data collected at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, USA, September 2018 to September 2019 and March 2022 to May 2023 Robert D Bales

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity