Recent Coastal and Marine Fieldwork - April 2017
USGS scientists studied eight locations in California, Florida, Massachusetts, and Panama in the past month, investigating wetland changes after a winter storm, coral reefs, peat cores, and much more. Here’s a quick overview of some fieldwork by our researchers.
This article is part of the April 2017 issue of the Sound Waves newsletter.
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St. Teresa, Florida: Tested the capabilities of the new Florida State University research vessel Apalachee with a vibracoring rig, April 11–13. Details at
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Panama: Collected data from six coral reefs in the Gulf of Chiriqui and Gulf of Panama to monitor coral abundance, coral calcification, and bioerosion in relation to oceanographic variability, February 27–April 6. Details at
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San Francisco, California: Monitored changes in Ocean Beach sand volume and distribution, April 4. Details at
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Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: Retrieved current, wave, and pressure data from a nanopod mooring off Sandwich Town Neck Beach, April 3. Details at
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Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida: Retrieved oceanographic and geochemical data for coral reef studies, March 1–31. Details at
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South San Francisco Bay, California: Collected detailed post-storm bathymetry in Alviso Slough, Coyote Creek, and Guadalupe Slough for a wetlands restoration project, March 27–29. Details at
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Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Florida: Collected peat cores to examine rates of Holocene carbon burial and sea-level rise, March 26–29. Details at
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Monterey Bay, California: Final recovery of Coordinated Canyon Experiment oceanographic moorings in upper Monterey Canyon, March 21–23. Details at
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2017-617-FA
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