Field Activity 2015-637-FA

Identifier 2015-637-FA
Purpose Year six of monitoring sediment and eelgrass parameters at the Nisqually River Delta restoration site.
Location Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington
Summary I) Luhr Beach: Four sediment cores, three sediment trenches, five surface sediment, two eelgrass transects, II) restored marsh: 15 freshwater, brackish, and marine plants; three marsh sediment.
Info derived Sediment grain size, organic carbon, and geochemistry; seagrass characteristics; short-lived radioisotope profiles; carbon isotope ratios (d13C), plant biomarkers.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Tacoma, WA 2015-05-17
End Tacoma, WA 2015-05-22
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -122.745
East -122.65795288
North 47.10863272
South 47.07524015

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Renee K Takesue
Crew members
Renee K Takesue
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Renee K Takesue
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Navigation, Biology, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Hand-grab sample Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Push corer Surveys (geochemical), Surveys (biological), Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Handheld GPS WGS84 Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity