U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Data Collection

Description:Wetland stability has ramifications for habitat availability, carbon sequestration, and coastal hazards. An understanding of wetland sediment budgets is necessary for modeling marsh vulnerability and prioritizing future salt marsh management actions. With funding from the Natural Resource Preservation Program (NRPP), the USGS made oceanographic measurements in order to quantify wetland sediment transport parameters within two Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network park units—Gateway National Recreation Area (Jamaica Bay) and Fire Island National Seashore (Great South Bay)—with the goal of informing management efforts. Bottom landing platforms with instrumentation to measure currents, waves, water level, optical turbidity, water temperature, conductivity, and water quality parameters were deployed at two sites in Jamaica Bay, and four sites in Great South Bay. In Jamaica Bay, platforms were deployed in sequential periods: August 15–October 16, 2017, October 18–December 11, 2017, December 14, 2017 – January 27, 2018, and March 27 – June 13, 2018. In Great South Bay, platforms were deployed in sequential periods: August 17 – October 19, 2017, October 21 – December 21, 2017, and March 28 – June 27, 2018.

Duration: Aug. 2017 – Jun. 2018

USGS Principal Investigator: N.K. Ganju

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 2017-031-FA, 2017-045-FA, 2017-055-FA, 2017-061-FA, 2017-062-FA, 2017-064-FA, 2017-067-FA, 2018-030-FA, 2018-033-FA, 2018-044-FA.

Revision History:

• June 2019, original release

Please use the following citation when referencing this dataset:

Nowacki, D. J., Suttles, S.E., Ganju, N.K., Montgomery, E.T. and Martini, M.A., 2019, Oceanographic and Water Quality Measurements Collected in Jamaica Bay, NY and Great South Bay, NY, August 2017–June 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BD78FQ