Field Activity 2016-622-FA

Identifier 2016-622-FA
Purpose Characterize sediment and eelgrass at the Nisqually Restoration Site, seven years after dike removal.
Location Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Summary Plant survey data species and location information submitted to FAD 5/23/2016. Two vegetation surveys, 13 surface sediment, 4 sediment cores consisting of 14 intervals each.
Info derived Sediment grain size, organic carbon, d13C; pore water redox and sulfide; eelgrass metrics.
Comments Biological Field Study will consist of eelgrass shoot density counts in 10 quadrats per transect per site. Chemistry sampling will be by push-core.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Tacoma, WA 2016-05-05
End Tacoma, WA 2016-05-11
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -122.732
East -122.68700478
North 47.10667571
South 47.06337205

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Surveys (biological), Navigation, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Handheld GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Push corer Surveys (geochemical), Surveys (biological), Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity