Field Activity 2024-001-FA

Identifier 2024-001-FA
Alternate names HR Towers and Wells 2024
Purpose Continuous monitoring of surface water and pore-water depth, salinity, and temperature, soil temperature and meteorological data, and pore-water collection for chemistry analysis in estuaries across Cape Cod, MA to examine environmental geochemistry and the impact of impoundments and restoration of salt marsh environments.
Location Wellfleet, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Info derived Time-series sensor data including eddy co-variance flux tower measurements of methane and carbon dioxide; meteorological measurements; soil temperature; groundwater well CTD measurements.
Comments Field activity is part of an ongoing investigation and environmental monitoring program around Cape Cod. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-018-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-019-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-026-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-011-FA. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-004-FA.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2024-01-01
End Woods Hole, MA 2024-12-31
Days in the field 30
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2024-01-05 2024-01-05 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2024-01-21 2024-01-21 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance. Meagan Eagle and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2024-02-09 2024-02-09 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and porewater collections following an over-wash event. Meagan Eagle, Emily, Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2024-03-22 2024-03-22 Duck Harbor Logged Forest: Retrieved well loggers and soil temp loggers. Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and porewater collections. Emily Tacke, and Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles
2024-04-23 2024-04-23 Duck Harbor Logged Forrest: Re-deployed well CTD loggers. Old County Typha site: EC Flux tower maintenance (see log for trouble shooting details); porewater collections. Swapped well CTD loggers and collected porewater at High Toss Dry Forest, Hopkins Wet Shrub, and Upper Pole Dike freshwater wetland sites. Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Meagan Eagle
2024-05-14 2024-05-14 HR Phragmites site: disconnected all power and taped cables for future EC flux tower removal. Old County Typha site: EC Flux tower maintenance. Swapped well CTD loggers at HRP, OCT, BB; and collected porewater at HRP, BB. Jennifer O'Keefe Suttles, Meagan Eagle, Eric Marsjanek
2024-06-20 2024-06-20 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and porewater collections. Meagan Eagle and Adrian Mann
2024-06-27 2024-06-27 Old County Typha site: Download. Pick up samples from Sophia Fox. Meagan Eagle, Dakota Sievers.
2024-07-23 2024-07-23 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and porewater collections. Porewater at High Toss and HK. Meagan Eagle
2024-08-15 2024-08-15 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux Tower maintenance and porewater collections. Meagan Eagle, Rachel Einecker, Emily Tacke.
2024-09-25 2024-09-25 Old County Typha site: Routine EC Flux tower maintenance. Phrag Tower site: Retrieve solar panels, batteries and all remaining EC sensors. Jen O'Keefe Suttles, Rachel Einecker, Meagan Eagle
2024-10-18 2024-10-18 Duck Harbor: collect surface sediment samples for HYPROP analysis. Meagan Eagle
Bounds
West -70.31799316
East -69.91149902
North 42.10229819
South 41.84501267

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kevin D KroegerMeagan J Eagle
Crew members
Thomas W Brooks
Scientist, Staff
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Adrian C Mann
Scientist, Staff
Emily J Tacke
Scientist, Staff
Rachel L Einecker
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Thomas W Brooks
Specialist, Information
Meagan J Eagle
Specialist, Information
Jennifer A O'keefe Suttles
Specialist, Information
Adrian C Mann
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Time Series, Geochemical, Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Environmental Data
Data type: Chemistry, Methane, CO2, Geochemical Monitoring, Experiments (geochemical), Experiments (biological), Transects, CTD

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Masterflex Portable Peristaltic Pump Chemistry (no data reported)
Groundwater wells (PVC) Chemistry (no data reported)
Push Point porewater samplers Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, Methane, Nutrients (no data reported)
In-Situ AquaTroll 200 (CTD) Geochemical Monitoring, Conductivity, Depth, Temperature (no data reported)
Eddy Co-Variance Flux Tower Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
InSitu BaroTroll 500 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Weather Station Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
ProOceanus mini CH4 Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Onset HOBO Temperature Logger Experiments (geochemical), Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
RTK Transects, Benchmarks (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity