Field Activity 2019-606-FA

Identifier 2019-606-FA
Purpose Quantify eelgrass habitat in Bellingham Bay
Location Puget Sound
Summary Navigation and sonar data submitted to FAD 3/26/2019 by Andrew Stevens.
Info derived Nearshore bathymetry, eelgrass coverage
Comments FAN assigned by CReiss 2/5/2019
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Bellingham, WA 2019-02-16
End Bellingham, WA 2019-02-21
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -122.71453857
East -122.42889404
North 48.78153251
South 48.61475368

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Renee K TakesueEric Grossman
Crew members
(not identified)
Scientist, Staff
Andrew Stevens
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Andrew Stevens
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Trimble R7 GPS (AS) Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Biosonics 420kHz Single Beam 1
YSI Sound velocity CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Eelgrass distributions and bathymetry of Bellingham Bay, Washington, 2019 Biosonics 420kHz This data release presents eelgrass distributions and bathymetry data derived from acoustic surveys of Bellingham Bay, Washington. Nathan R vanArendonk

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity