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Field Activity Details for field activity 2011-044-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Turbidity, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy turbidity probes and ADCPs at Blackwater NWR, MD

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Maple Dam Boat launch, Cambridge, MD

End Port/Location: Maple Dam Boat launch, Cambridge, MD

Start Date: 2011-09-19

End Date: 2011-09-23

Equipment Used: Sensor - turbidity, Grab sampler

Information to be Derived: Time series data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: We deployed turbidity probes adjacent to marsh accretion sites and ADCPs in the channel. We will recover the instruments and data in 10 weeks

Staff: Jonathan Borden

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This report is based on information from activity 11017. This report is based on information from activity undefined.
Project = Estuarine observations and modeling, Estuarine observations and modeling
3/13/2020 from Neil: deployment of four pole-mounted sensors and two ADCPs, from USFWS jonboat

Location:

Chesapeake Bay, United States, North America, North Atlantic;, undefined

Boundaries
North: 38.45036 South: 38.31796 West: -76.1641 East: -75.89218

Platform(s):

photo of Jon Boat - generic
Jon Boat - generic

Publications

Ganju, N.K., Dickhudt, P.J., Montgomery, E.T., Brennand, Patrick, Derby, R.K, Brooks, T.W., Guntenspergen, G.R., Martini, M.A., Borden, Jonathan, and Baldwin, S.M., 2012, Summary of oceanographic and water-quality measurements near the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland, 2011: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1099, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121099.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Sensor - turbidity --- Turbidity
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology

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