Thursday, January 03, 2013
NOAA's National Geodetic Survey and Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management Collaborate to Build Sentinel Site Infrastructure at Cape Cod
In December, National Geodetic Survey staff and the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (WB NERR) completed the first year of a study monitoring the stability of different types of wetland-based local geodetic control networks set in the deep wetland peats found at Cape Cod. As part of the NOAA Sentinel Site Program, local geodetic control networks are required to connect vertically-based field observations, such as local water levels and wetland elevation changes, however, the remote locations of many of these sites mean that traditional upland geodetic control networks are unavailable. At the conclusion of this first year, all 12 wetland rod marks established at WB NERR have been converted into dual-purpose SET marks, representing an important milestone in the completion of the required infrastructure for sea-level change sentinel sites as part of the NOAA Sentinel Site Program. For more information, contact Philippe Hensel.
