Recon trip to determine where to deploy instrumentation. The goal is to measure turbidity at the mouth of runnels (channels dug in the marsh as a potential restoration method to drain surface ponds) to determine if sediment transport is a factor to consider in this restoration.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location
Buzzards Bay, Fairhaven and Dartmouth marshes, Massachusetts, USA
Summary
Recon activity completed, no data collected for USGS use or publication
Recon to determine where and how to deploy monitoring equipment. Sediment samples were collected at each of the six sites. Neil Ganju, Noa Randall, and Alice Besterman (Buzzards Bay Coalition post-doc) were involved.
2021-08-04
2021-08-04
Noa and Neil deploy instrumentation in the field at both Little Bay and Ocean view. Instruments will stay in the field for one full tidal cycle (approximately one month).
2021-09-03
2021-09-03
Noa, Neil, and Kate Ackerman will go to both field sites to recover instruments. The data will then be downloaded, the time drift of the instruments will be noted, and the data will be turned over to our colleague Alice Besterman at Buzzards Bay Coalition.
