As part of a project to assess marsh response to human alterations, over the past few weeks we have deployed a series of moorings in the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge. This project is in collaboration with the Seal Beach National Wildlife Refuge, Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach, and Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest. Doing all of this work socially distanced, chasing break of dawn low tides, and in sinking mud, has been very challenging but things are now all in place!
- Christine Whitcraft CSULB helping us out
- Greg taking a GPS point
- instrument frame pre-deployment
- field crew post-deployment
- Chloe helping us deploy vector frames
- ADV ready to be submerged!
- social distanced fieldwork = lots of boats
- eroding salt-marsh edge
- followup check at a lower-low tide found this frame high and dry (as planned) as well as sunken!