AKA: Puerto Rico ocean/sed dynamics
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Past, Present and Future Coral Reefs (ZP00FRV)
Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi
Affiliate Investigator(s): Clark Sherman, UPR-M
Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan
Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Geochemical Monitoring, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: collect oceanographic and sediment dynamics data
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: La Paguera, PR
End Port/Location: La Paguera, PR
Start Date: 2017-05-15
End Date: 2017-05-24
Equipment Used: Other, Moorings - Tripods, camera, navigation, Sediment trap
Information to be Derived: tide, wave height, wave period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, turbidity, temperature, salinity
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: grain size and %Carbon analysis submitted to FAD by Mike Torresan 6/14/2017
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Guanica Bay, Puerto Rico
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 17.99379768 | South: 17.82897049 | West: -67.0997772 | East: -66.82209165 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Cheriton, O.M., Rosenberger, K.J., Logan, J.B., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2019, Time series data of oceanographic conditions from La Parguera, Puerto Rico, 2017-2018 Coral Reef Circulation and Sediment Dynamics Experiment: U.S. Geological Survey data release.
Takesue, R.K., 2019, Geochemical and isotopic compositions of stream sediment, parent rock, and nearshore sediment from southwest Puerto Rico, April 2017-June 2018: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QEAV6O.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Moorings - Tripods | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| camera | --- | Photo | |
| navigation | --- | Navigation | |
| Sediment trap | --- | Sediment Properties Geology |
