Field Activity 2014-655-FA

Identifier 2014-655-FA
Purpose To improve the scientific basis for shallow water habitat restoration to support fisheries in the San Francisco Bay Delta, in collaboration with scientists from the NRP and CA Water Science Center.
Location San Francisco Bay Delta, Little Holland Tract, California
Summary OTS data submitted to FAD 1/30/2017 Grainsize, suspended sed and bulk density data on FAD
Info derived Time series of suspended sediment concentration, tidal stage, and wave attributes.
Comments Two days for deployment, one for recovery. I don't know what vehicle we are using.
Projects
Platform
Fast Eddy (SC)
Boston Whaler 21 foot
Vehicles
MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L
Itinerary
Start Rio Vista, CA 2014-08-25
End Rio Vista, CA 2014-10-24
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -121.729
East -121.63231728
North 38.34440275
South 38.22842333

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Jessica R Lacy
Crew members
Timothy C Elfers
Scientist, Staff
Peter Dal Ferro
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jessica R Lacy
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Jan Thompson USGS Jon Burau USGS Tara Morgan USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Turbidity, Wave, Navigation, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Van Veen Biology, Geology 1
Seabird CTD CTD (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Meteorology, CTD, Temperature, pH, CO2, Radon, Conductivity, Current, Dissolved Oxygen, Turbidity, Fluorescence, Wave, ORP, Tide, Methane, Depth, Light, Nitrate, Gas Hydrates, Density, Sediment Properties, Osmometic Pressure, Chlorophyll, Nutrients, Pressure (no data reported)
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
datalogger Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Grain size and bulk density of sediment cores from Little Holland Tract and Liberty Island, Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, 2014 Van Veen Grain size distribution and bulk density are reported for sediment push cores from two flooded agricultural tracts, Little Holland Tract and Liberty Island, in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California. Push core samples were collected from 14 sites by the U.S Geological Survey in August, 2014. Each core was analyzed at multiple depths to investigate variations in particle sizes with depth below the sediment surface. The same sites were sampled again in 2016 (https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5a73aa70e4b0a9a2e9e172de). These data provide insight into the variation of particle size distributions in space, bed depth, and time. Jessica R Lacy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity