Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-619-FA

AKA: CCE Deployment 2015

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Other

Funding Program(s): Other (Other), Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments (ZP00FDB)

Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble, Joanne C. Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles K. Paull (MBARI)

Information Specialist(s): Katherine Coble, Joanne C. Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Coordinated Canyon Experiment - initial deployment of moorings (MS1, 2, & 3) and MBARI instrumentation in the upper canyon

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2015-10-05

End Date: 2015-10-06

Equipment Used: navigation, Sediment trap, Moorings - Tripods

Information to be Derived: Deployment of three moorings in upper Monterey Canyon as part of the CCE

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Data submitted for FAD; recovered on 2016-610-FA Mooring numbers: CCE15M1A CCE15M2A CCE15M3A USGS personnel at sea included Kurt Rosenberger, Joanne Ferreira, Cordell Johnson, Peter Dal Ferro, Jenny White, Katherine Coble. MS2 and MS3 deployed 10/5; MS1 deployed 10/6. Successful deployment completed ahead of schedule.

Staff: Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This was a joint field operation with MBARI as part of the CCE. WinFrog nav.
moorings were recovered on 2016-610-FA

Location:

Monterey Canyon, Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

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