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

Field Activity 2023-004-FA

Identifier 2023-004-FA
Alternate names HR Towers and Wells 2023
Purpose Continuous monitoring of surface water and pore-water depth, salinity, and temperature, soil temperature and meteorological data, and pore-water collection for chemistry analysis in estuaries across Cape Cod, MA to examine environmental geochemistry and the impact of impoundments and restoration of salt marsh environments.
Location Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Surface water, porewater, and sediment core collections are completed. Samples are stored in WHSC walk-in freezers and refrigerators or distributed to external laboratories for analysis. Gas flux and CTD measurements are completed. Raw data files and field notes are stored in WHSC network folders.
Info derived Time-series sensor data including eddy co-variance flux tower measurements of methane and carbon dioxide; meteorological measurements; soil temperature; groundwater well CTD measurements.
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 2019-018-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-019-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-026-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-011-FA.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2023-01-01
End Woods Hole, MA 2023-12-31
Days in the field 30
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2023-01-04 2023-01-04 Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and RTK at some sites. Sophie Kuhl, Sydney Nick, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-01-27 2023-01-27 Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and winter porewater sampling at well sites. RTK at some sites. Sophie Kuhl, Sydney Nick, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-02-22 2023-02-22 Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl and Sydney Nick
2023-03-16 2023-03-16 Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sophie Kuhl and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-04-04 2023-04-04 Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance; removed C02 sensor from Phragmites site. Meagan Eagle, Sophie Kuhl and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-04-27 2023-04-27 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: Installation of groundwater wells and respiration collars; deployment of well CTDs and soil temperature loggers. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance; power cycled Biomet. Meagan Eagle and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-05-04 2023-05-04 Old County Typha site: Checked status of EC Flux Tower. Meagan Eagle and NPS staff.
2023-05-25 2023-05-25 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: porewater collections, GHG respiration chamber measurements, download well CTDs. Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Sophie Kuhl.
2023-06-07 2023-06-07 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: porewater collections, GHG respiration chamber measurements, download well CTDs. Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Sebastian Alvarez.
2023-06-12 2023-06-12 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: porewater collections, GHG respiration chamber measurements, download well CTDs. . Meagan Eagle, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Sebastian Alvarez.
2023-06-30 2023-06-30 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Jackie Sastry
2023-07-05 2023-07-05 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Meagan Eagle, Sebastian Alverez, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-07-07 2023-07-07 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections (Meagan Eagle, Sebastian Alverez, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles). Sediment collections at OC Typha and DH with Ellen and Annabelle.
2023-07-13 2023-07-13 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber and infiltrometer measurements; porewater collections (Meagan Eagle, Sebastian Alverez, and 2 volunteers).
2023-07-25 2023-07-25 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Sebastian Alverez, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-08-17 2023-08-17 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-09-19 2023-09-19 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-09-27 2023-09-27 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-10-19 2023-10-19 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance, changed desiccant and calibrated methane sensor. Swapped well loggers around Herring River Basin. Removed methane sensor from Phragmites EC flux tower site. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-10-20 2023-10-20 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections; sediment core collections. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-11-16 2023-11-16 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-11-27 2023-11-27 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2023-12-13 2023-12-13 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: GHG respiration chamber measurements and porewater collections. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
Bounds
West -70.31799316
East -69.91149902
North 42.10229819
South 41.84501267

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kevin D KroegerMeagan J Eagle
Crew members
Thomas W Brooks
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Adrian C Mann
Scientist, Staff
Sydney K Nick
Scientist, Staff
Kuhl, Sophie
Scientist, Staff
Tacke, Emily
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Thomas W Brooks
Specialist, Information
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Specialist, Information
Adrian C Mann
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Biological Field Study, Geochemical, Time Series, Environmental Data, Sampling
Data type: Geology, CTD, Transects, Experiments (biological), Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical Monitoring, CO2, Methane, Chemistry

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Modified piston corer for sediment collection Sediment Properties (no data reported)
Masterflex Portable Peristaltic Pump No data associated with this equipment. Data is generated by the sample vials filled with the pump. Chemistry (no data expected)
LI-COR 7810 CH4 CO2 analyzer Experiments (geochemical) (no data reported)
RTK Transects, Benchmarks (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Temperature Logger Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Weather Station Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
InSitu BaroTroll 500 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Eddy Co-Variance Flux Tower Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
Push Point porewater samplers Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, Methane, Nutrients (no data reported)
Groundwater wells (PVC) No data associated with this equipment. Data is generated by the sensors deployed in the wells. Chemistry (no data expected)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity