Field Activity 2018-631-FA

Identifier 2018-631-FA
Also known as Nisqually Year 9
Purpose Characterize eelgrass plant status and trends and sedimentary organic matter composition near the marsh restoration area.
Location Nisqually River Delta, South Puget Sound, Washington
Summary Plant data submitted to FAD 9/17/2018. Two vegetation transects for eelgrass metrics, sediment cores at two sites for grain size and geochemistry.
Info derived Plant densities and measurements; organic matter composition; sediment grain size.
Comments Biological survey method = quadrats.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Lacey, WA 2018-05-15
End Lacey, WA 2018-05-19
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -122.75576214
East -122.61952557
North 47.11338627
South 46.99573768

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, Geology

Equipment used

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

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity