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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-605-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: I-R2-14-WP

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s): Don Field, NOAA-CCFHR Greg Piniak, NOAA-NCCOS

Information Specialist(s): Olivia Cheriton, Thomas Reiss

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: LIDAR, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect topographic and oceanographic data in support of sea-level rise impacts study at RTS-USAKA

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

End Port/Location: Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Start Date: 2014-02-26

End Date: 2014-05-09

Equipment Used: navigation, instrumentmooring, camera, Other, LIDAR

Information to be Derived: tidal height, wave height, wave period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, temperature, run-up elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: mooringlogs on FAD

Staff: Olivia Cheriton, Thomas Reiss, Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: related deployment; I-D2-13-WP

Location:

Republic of the Marshall Islands

Boundaries
North: 59.75 South: -19.75 West: 105.25 East: 179.75

Platform(s):


Patriot

Publications

Oberle, F.K.J., Swarzenski, P.W., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2017, Atoll Groundwater Movement and Its Response to Climatic and Sea-Level Fluctuations: Water, v. 9 no. 9, pp. 1–18, doi: 10.3390/w9090650.

Rosenberger, K.J., Cheriton, O.M., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2020, Cross-reef wave and water level data from coral reef environments: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9RYN5NH.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
instrumentmooring --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
camera --- Photo
Other --- --- ---
LIDAR --- LIDAR

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