Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - April-May 2018
USGS scientists visited more than 20 coastal and offshore locations studying Yucatan coastal caves, wildfire-contaminated sediments in California, hurricane damage to coral reefs in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and much more. Here’s a quick overview of some fieldwork by our researchers.
This article is part of the April-May 2018 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.
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Madeira Beach, Florida: Collected drone photos to test structure-from-motion for measuring coastal topography, May 22. Details:
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Ocean Beach, California: Monitored changes in beach sand volume and distribution, May 21. Details:
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Andros, Bahamas: Conducted reef surveys and sampled sub-fossil corals to determine the timing of Historic reef mortality on the coral reefs on the northeast side of Andros Island, Bahamas, May 9–May17. Details:
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Cleveland Corral Landslide, California: Conducted drone survey of landslide for structure-from-motion mapping, April 23–24. Details:
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Florida Keys, Florida: Site visits to coral calcification monitoring stations to measure coral and algal calcification rates, April 23–May12. Details:
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Sand Key, Florida: Collected ground control point GPS data for Sand Key video coastal monitoring station, April 19. Details:
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Ocean Beach, California: Monitored changes in beach sand volume and distribution, April 18. Details:
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Southeast Alaska: Mapped southern Queen Charlotte Fault to the Canadian border, April 15–29. Details:
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San Pablo Bay, California: Mapped and measure contaminated sediments from wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties, April 26–27. Details:
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Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Monitored coastal erosion and tested sediment grain size mapping using a drone at Sandwich Town Neck Beach, April 23–26. Details:
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Tampa Bay, Florida: Validated Ocean Carbon System and collected samples from 2015 study site, April 23–26. Details:
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Lake Pillsbury, California: Used sub-bottom profiler to investigate earthquake faults beneath the lake, April 22–24. Details:
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Offshore Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida: Collected multibeam bathymetry and sediment cores for habitat mapping, March 27–April 23. Details:
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Tampa Bay, Florida: Collected data and samples from Spectrophotometric Analytical System, April 16–20. Details:
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San Francisco Bay, California: Collected swath bathymetry in Alviso Slough, Coyote Creek, and Guadalupe Slough, April 13–17. Details:
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Matanzas Inlet, Florida: Measured cross-shore sediment transport processes, April 8–16. Details:
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Madeira Beach, Florida: Collected drone photos to test structure-from-motion for measuring coastal topography, April 11–12. Details:
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West Maui, Hawaii: Picked up mooring measuring tides, waves, currents, and turbidity, April 2–10. Details:
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Barnstable, Massachusetts: Used drone to map the Great Marsh for carbon budget computer model, April 4–6, March 29, March 21–23. Details:
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-009-FA,
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-037-FA,
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St. Croix, US Virgin Islands: Scouted new sites for coral reef experiments and assessed hurricane damage to Buck Island Reef National Monument, April 2–6. Details:
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Santa Barbara, California: Measured changes in beaches and nearshore from Goleta to Mugu Canyon, March 26–31. Details:
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Long Island, New York: Measured currents, waves, pressure, suspended-sediment concentration, volatile solids, and stable- isotope analysis; took time series photos of the marsh edge in Jamaica Bay and Great South Bay, March 26–30. Details:
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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Collected bathymetry, samples, and time-series measurements of suspended sediment, tides, and waves, March 12–30. Details:
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Tampa Bay, Florida: Used Clean Ocean Carbon System and collected water samples, March 28–29. Details:
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Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts: Mapped coastal change using drones, March 28. Details:
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-038-FA -
Madeira Beach, Florida: Collected GPS measurements of ground control points for drone surveys, March 28 and 21 . Details:
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-318-FA,
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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California: Collected sediment samples to support habitat restoration, March 28. Details:
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-626-FA -
Playa Del Carmen, Mexico: Installed water monitoring instruments and collected samples in coastal caves, March 14–27. Details:
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-031-FA
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