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

Field Activity 2016-016-FA

Identifier 2016-016-FA
Purpose Collect marsh cores, pore-water and surface water conductivity, temperature and depth time-series data, and conduct elevation surveys in 11 tidally-restricted estuary systems on Cape Cod to examine environmental geochemistry and health of the estuary. Three additional sites in Rhode Island were added to this study; two sites with a restored tidal restriction and one control natural salt marsh site in Narragansett Bay.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Outer Cape Estuaries, Massachusetts, United States
Summary Marsh sediment coring, CTD logging in surface water and shallow wells, and elevation information of tidally restricted creeks
Info derived Geochemistry, elevation of transects along tidally restricted creeks
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 2015-042-FA
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2016-04-11
End Woods Hole, MA 2016-11-30
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -71.512756347656
East -69.98568
North 41.96033
South 41.54387

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kevin D KroegerMeagan J Eagle
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Adrian C Mann
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Faming Wang, MBL Jim Tang, MBL

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Depth, Navigation, Geology, Geochemical Monitoring

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
Real Time Kinematic GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology 2
Other Unknown, Mooring (physical oceanography), Biology Monitoring, Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
RhodeIsland_Cores Push corer (wh) Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from salt marshes, Rhode Island, 2016 Meagan J Eagle

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
HR_cores Push corer (wh) Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
HR_2015_to_January_2020 Continuous monitoring data from Herring River wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
RestoredMarshCore Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16 Meagan J Eagle
HR_meta_2015_to_January_2020 Continuous monitoring data from Herring River Wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020 including water level, salinity, soil temperature, and photosynthetically active radiation and others. Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
RestoredMarshCores Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16 Meagan J Eagle
CCmarsh_sensors_2016_2017 Continuous monitoring data from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2016-17 Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles

Publications

Eagle, M.J.; Kroeger, K.D.; Spivak, A.C.; Wang, F.; Tang, J.; Abdul-Aziz, O.I.; Ishtiaq, K.S.; O'Keefe-Suttles, J.A.; Mann, A.G., 2022, Soil carbon consequences of historic hydrologic impairment and recent restoration in coastal wetlands: Science of the Total Environment 848, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.157682.

Moseman-Valtierra, S.M.; Szura, K.; Eagle, M.; Thornber, C.S.; Wang, F., 2022, CO2 uptake offsets other greenhouse gas emissions from salt marshes with chronic nitrogen loading: Wetlands 42, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13157-022-01601-2. (Abstract)

O'Keefe-Suttles, J.A., Brosnahan, S.M., Gonneea, M.E., and Kroeger, K.D., 2019, Continuous monitoring data from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2016-17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YLXOY8.

O’Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Moseman-Valtierra, S., Pratt, S.E., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from salt marshes, Rhode Island, 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P94HIDVU. (Abstract)

O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Spivak, A., Sanks, K., Roberts, D., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from natural and restored salt marshes on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015-16: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R154DY. (Abstract)

O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., Eagle, M.J., Mann, A.G., Wang, F., Tang, J., Roberts, D., Sanks, K., Smith, T.P., and Kroeger, K.D., 2021, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from Herring River wetlands and other nearby wetlands in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, 2015–17: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P95RXPHB. (Abstract)

O’Keefe Suttles, J.A., Gonneea, M.E., Brosnahan, S.M., Mann, A.G., Brooks, T.W., Kroeger, K.D., Medeiros, K., Smith, T.P., Wang, F., and Tang, J., 2020, Continuous monitoring data from Herring River wetlands, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 2015 to January 2020: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9R4SRTR. (Abstract)

Samples collected during this field activity

Samples and cores from the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center: Interactive map

883 samples collected on this field activity are available for further study.

Subsamples (883)