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

Field Activity 2017-006-FA

Identifier 2017-006-FA
Purpose Evaluate sediment dynamics and sediment fluxes in Grand Bay estuary system over tidal and seasonal timescales using long-term instrumented mooring deployments and tidal cycle surveys.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Grand Bay, Alabama/Mississippi, United States
Info derived Currents, waves, suspended sediment concentrations (SSC), temperature, salinity, Dissolved Oxygen, Chla, and dissolved organic matter (fDom).
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-034-FA The CTD is a "Sea-Bird SBE19"
Projects
Platform
Small Power Boat Class A
Small Power Boat Class A
Itinerary
Start Pascagoula, MS 2017-01-22
End Pascagoula, MS 2017-01-30
Days in the field 9
Bounds
West -88.4224
East -88.38219521
North 30.42095928
South 30.36624738

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
Alexander R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Steven E Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Daniel J Nowacki
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Steven E Suttles
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Current, Navigation, Chemistry, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD (no data reported)
ADCP Current 1
Garmin GPS 76 Navigation (no data reported)
Water sampler Chemistry (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Grand_Bay_ADCP ADCP Discharge measurements made in Bayou Heron and Bayou Middle, Grand Bay, Mississippi in January 2017 Daniel J Nowacki

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Mean_Hs Bottom platform Tab-delimited file containing modeled and observed weekly mean wave heights Kathryn Smith
Bathy_grid Bottom platform Bathymetric grid and shoreline data Kathryn Smith
RWE_wind Bottom platform Summarized weekly wind data Kathryn Smith