Field Activity 2014-668-FA

Identifier 2014-668-FA
Purpose Measure bedload sediment transport across tidal flat and flow conditions; measure affects of sediment abrasion on seagrasses and benthic invertebrates.
Location Nisqually Delta, Puget Sound, WA
Summary grainsize data on FAD
Info derived currents, discharge, bedload transport, sediment grain size, seagrass cover/shoot density/plant height, epibenthic invertebrate biomass/community composition, epifauna invertebrate biomass/community composition along a gradient in sediment disturbance
Comments Equipment Used-Environmental Data-Other: CTD-Sontek castaway CTD, Tide/Currents-Nortek 2MHz Aquadopp
Projects
Platform
Gregor
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Luhr Beach, Nisqually Reach, WA 2014-07-14
End Luhr Beach, Nisqually Reach, WA 2014-07-15
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -122.802
East -122.65014648
North 47.18224593
South 47.0561998

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Eric Grossman
Crew members
Eric Grossman
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Eric Grossman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Christopher Curran, USGS-WAWSC

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Visual Identification, Other
Data type: Surveys (biological), CTD, Current, Tide, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology, Species ID

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sediment trap Sediment Properties, Geology (no data reported)
sample Surveys (biological) (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
acousticdoppler Current (no data reported)
wave/tide gauge Tide, Wave (no data reported)
video Video (no data reported)
camera Photo (no data reported)
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
Marine Mammal Observation Species ID (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity