Field Activity 2017-614-FA

Identifier 2017-614-FA
Purpose Quantify changes in eelgrass habitat on the Nisqually River delta
Location Nisqually River delta Washington Puget Sound
Summary biosonics, field_notes, gnss, hypack, matlab, photos, planning and SVP data submitted to FAD 2/28/2017
Info derived nearshore bathymetry, eelgrass presence
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Olympia, WA 2017-02-19
End Olympia, WA 2017-02-25
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -122.75436401
East -122.65698581
North 47.13403817
South 47.05452901

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Single Beam, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Biosonics 420kHz Single Beam 1
YSI Sound velocity CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)
camera Photo 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Eelgrass distributions and bathymetry derived from an acoustic survey of the Nisqually River delta, Washington, 2017 Biosonics 420kHz This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distribution and bathymetry data derived from acoustic surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2017. Andrew Stevens
Eelgrass distributions derived from a towed underwater video survey of the Nisqually River delta, 2017 camera This portion of the USGS data release presents eelgrass distributions derived from towed underwater video surveys of the Nisqually River delta, Washington in 2017. Andrew Stevens

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity