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
Recovery 1115E, 1116E, 1118E, and 1119E: On September 24, 2019, all sensors were recovered from 1118E and 1119E at Thompsons Beach. On September 25, 2019, all sensors were recovered from 1115E and 1116E at Stone Harbor. The recovered sensors were brought back to the lab and raw data were downloaded and archived on the WHCMSC file server.
Info derived
Measure water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters. Flow/discharge. Water samples for suspended sediment concentration and organic content.
Comments
Recovery 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
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-006-FA
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-016-FA
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
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
