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.
Location
Stone Harbor and Thompsons Beach, New Jersey, United States, Atlantic Ocean and Delaware Bay.
Summary
Details of field activities are described for each event assosiated with this FAN.
Data collected: Water levels, currents, waves, water-quality, turbidity, discharge, suspended solids concentration, and grain size data.
Raw data collected by this instrument is located on the USGS WHSC server under the 'stg' folder. The data will undergo a QAQC process before it is released publicly in ~Fall 2023 using the USGS data-release-builder and ScienceBase. This is part of the NFWF NJ project.
Info derived
water level, currents, pressure, turbidity, and water-quality parameters.
Comments
Funding Project: MN00GSM NFWF/Monitoring Beach Marsh GR18LQ00GSM2000
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-048-FA.
EVENT type Field Activity.
Deployment 11150A, 11151A, 11152AB, and 11153A: On March 22, 2022, the Sontek IQ Plus was deployed on a fiberglass grate (parallel to bed, like bottom landing grated platforms) mounted to a fence post for mooring 11150A (the southwest site at Stone Harbor marsh channel). A YSI EXO2 and RBR Dwave were deployed at mooring 1151A (the northeast site at Stone Harbor marsh channel) on a fence post mount. A SP80 RTK receiver was used to get horizontal and vertical positions of 1150A and 1151A platforms as well as a cross-sectional survey of marsh channel for Sontek IQ Plus flow calculations. A Nortek Aquadopp was deployed at 1152AB (seaward site at marsh channel northeast of Thompsons Beach) and a YSI EXO2 and RBR Dwave at mooring 1153A (landward site at marsh channel northeast of Thompsons Beach) both using bottom lander platforms.
2022-04-26
2022-04-30
Collect ADCP transects across Thompsons Beach marsh channel over tidal cycle for discharge calculations. Collect water samples at Thompsons Beach for EXO II turbidity calibrations.
Personnel:
Robert Bales
Eric Marsjanik
Oliva De Meo
Alex Olson
Urgent and required for project.
OT Notes:
Robert Bales-16
Eric Marsjanik-16
Oliva DeMeo-16
Alex Olson-16
GSM20
2022-06-05
2022-06-09
Recover grated platform at Thomposons Beach, NJ, switch out EXO II and Dfast12, redeploy platform with new sensors. Switch out EXO II and dfast12 at Stone Harbor, NJ and mount new EXO II and dwave. RTK measurements across SH channel. Collect water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone harbor for EXO II turbidity calibrations. Personnel: Steve Suttles, Robert Bales, Alex Olson. Urgent and required for project. OT Notes: Robert Bales-12 Steve Suttles-12 Alex Olson-12. May not use all overtime hours.
GSM20
2022-08-10
2022-08-14
Recover grated platforms at Thomposons Beach, NJ, switch out EXO II, Dfast12, and AQD. Redeploy platforms with new sensors. Switch out EXO II and dfast12 at Stone Harbor, NJ and mount new EXO II and dwave. RTK measurements across SH channel. Collect water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone harbor for EXO II turbidity calibrations. Personnel: Robert Bales, Olivia De Meo, Erin Lyons. Urgent and required for project. OT Notes: Robert Bales-20; Olivia De Meo-20; Erin Lyons-20. May not use all overtime hours.
GR22LQ00GSM2000
2022-09-25
2022-10-02
Recover and redeploy instruments at Stone Harbor and Thompsons Beach, NJ. Collect ADCP transects at Thompsons Beach channel over a tidal cycle. Collect water samples at both sites.
O/T Hours:
Steve - 12 (9/26,9/27,9/28 x 4 OT)
Olivia - 12 (9/26,9/27,9/28 x 4 OT)
Bo - 32 (9/26,9/27,9/28, 9/29, 9/30 x 4 OT & 10/1 x 12 OT)
Jin-Si - 20 (9/29,9/30 x 4 OT & 10/1 x 12 OT)
Erin - 20 (9/29,9/30 x 4 OT & 10/1 x 12 OT)
We may not use all overtime hours depending on how many days we spend in the field. We may end earlier than expected.
GSM20
2022-12-05
2022-12-09
Recover grated platform at Thomposons Beach, NJ, switch out EXO II, Dfast12. Redeploy platform with new sensors. Switch out EXO II and dfast12 at Stone Harbor, NJ and mount new EXO II and dwave. Download IQ data and redeploy. RTK measurements across SH channel. Collect water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone harbor for EXO II turbidity calibrations. Personnel: Robert Bales, Olivia De Meo, Steve Suttles. Urgent and required for project. OT Notes: Robert Bales-12; Olivia De Meo-12; Steve Suttles-12. May not use all overtime hours.
GSM20
2023-02-13
2023-02-16
Recover grated platforms at Thomposons Beach, NJ. Recover both posts and mounts at Stone Harbor, NJ. RTK measurements across SH channel. Collect water samples at Thompsons Beach and Stone harbor for EXO II turbidity calibrations. Personnel: Robert Bales, Neil Ganju, Eric Marsjanik. Urgent and required for project. OT Notes: Bales-12 Ganju-12 Mars-12. Likely will not use all overtime hours.
This is the last event for this project and makes sense to keep using original FA created in 2022 vs creating a new one for 2023 (would only include recovery trip).
GSM20
2023-03-22
2023-03-22
Recovery 1152DE: On March 22, 2023, another failed attempt to recover 1152DE was made.
2023-05-15
2023-05-16
On May 16, 2023, the Nortek Aquadopp and all mooring equipment was recovered at 1152DE which marked the end of the data collection of this dataset. The recovered sensor was brought back to the lab and raw data were downloaded and archived on the WHCMSC file server.
Grain-size analysis data from sediment samples in support of oceanographic and water-quality measurements at Thompsons Beach and Stone Harbor, New Jersey, collected in September 2018 and March 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
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
