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- description: Water quality in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary
research project begun in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection. This narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it
to the Atlantic Ocean, is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen -depletion
events, seaweed, stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate
a multidisciplinary approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and
direction of tidal currents, distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics
interact to affect the estuary's water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods
Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida, began mapping the sea floor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary
in November 2011 and completed in September 2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools,
including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring sea floor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data
(which provides information about sea floor texture and sediment type), subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath
the floor of the estuary, and sediment samples with bottom photographs for ground validation of the acoustic data. More information
about the four surveys that were part of this project can be found at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Field Activity web pages: 2011-041-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA 2013-014-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA
2013-030-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA; abstract: Water quality in the
Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary research project begun
in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This
narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean,
is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen -depletion events, seaweed,
stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate a multidisciplinary
approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and direction of tidal currents,
distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics interact to affect the estuary's
water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg,
Florida, began mapping the sea floor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary in November 2011 and completed in September
2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey
Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools, including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring
sea floor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data (which provides information about sea floor texture
and sediment type), subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath the floor of the estuary, and sediment samples
with bottom photographs for ground validation of the acoustic data. More information about the four surveys that were part
of this project can be found at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center Field Activity web pages: 2011-041-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA
2013-014-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA 2013-030-FA: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA
Citation
- Title 2 meter Arc Raster grid of bathymetry acquired using a SEA Ltd. SWATHplus-H interferometric sonar within Barnegat Bay New
Jersey by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2011, 2012, and 2013 (Esri binary grid, UTM 18N, WGS 84).
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2018-05-21T13:12:04.345799
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