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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-677-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Pacific Coral Reef Geology and Oceanography (ZP00DXN)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s): Barnard, Patrick; Warrick, Jonathan

Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect tide and wave data at 3 wharves over the the 2015/16 El Nino winter. Collect hydrodynamic and suspended sediment data in a rippple-scour depression over the the 2015/16 El Nino winter.

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Ford F750 Flatbed stake truck - blue

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Start Date: 2015-11-12

End Date: 2016-05-27

Equipment Used: instrumentmooring

Information to be Derived: tide, wave height, wave period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: data and mooringlogs submitted to FAD 7/15/2016

Staff: Peter Dal Ferro, Timothy Elfers, Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Barnard ENSO Impacts of Santa Cruz GX16ZP00F00A500

Location:

Northern Monterey Bay, CA

Boundaries
North: 37.00635683 South: 36.90828204 West: -122.05 East: -121.83868408

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Dartnell, P., and Rosenberger, K.J., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2018, Bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter, and time-series datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1W36.

Dartnell, P., Rosenberger, K.J., and Storlazzi C.D., 2018, Bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter, and time-series datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1W36.

Rosenberger, K.J., Storlazzi, C.D., and Dartnell, P., 2019, Morphodynamics of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions: Northern Monterey Bay, CA: Marine Geology, v. 407, pp. 44–59, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.10.006.

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Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
instrumentmooring --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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