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

Field Activity D0112PS

Identifier D0112PS
Alternate names D-01-12-PS
Purpose Make a vegetation map of eelgrass in the Nisqually Delta
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center,Washington State Department of Ecology. Chief Scientist: Renee Takesue. Geophysical data of field activity D-01-12-PS in Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington from 02/15/2012 to 02/21/2012
Location Washington
Info derived Spatial distribution of eelgrass in the Nisqually Delta
Comments data on internal backup 2012/D-01-12-PS/rawdata Staff information imported from InfoBank Renee Takesue (PCMSC, ) Andrew Stevens (PCMSC, ) Eric Grossman (USGS PCMSC) - Geologist George Kaminsky (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Coastal Engineer Heather Baron (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Coastal Scientist Andrew Ryan (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Field Technician Brian Pickering (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Boat Captain
Platform
George Davidson
Itinerary
Start Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington 2012-02-15
End Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington 2012-02-21
Bounds
West -122.79004745
East -122.63606921
North 47.17304165
South 47.07422782
Activity Geophysical

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Renee K Takesue
Crew members
Andrew Stevens
Scientist, Staff
Renee K Takesue
Scientist, Staff
Eric Grossman
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Andrew Stevens
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff George Kaminsky (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Coastal Engineer,Heather Baron (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Coastal Scientist,Andrew Ryan (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Field Technician,Brian Pickering (Wash. State Dept. of Ecology) - Boat Captain

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation 1
single beam sonar 180-280KHz Single Beam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Global positioning system (GPS) data d-01-12-ps.064 GPS Provisional best file Andrew Stevens
Eelgrass distributions and bathymetry derived from an acoustic survey of the Nisqually River delta, Washington, 2012 single beam sonar 180-280KHz This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distribution and bathymetry data derived from acoustic surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2012 (USGS Field Activity Number D-01-12-PS). Eelgrass and bathymetry data were collected from the R/V George Davidson equipped with a single-beam sonar system and global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver. Andrew Stevens

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity