AKA: none
Other ID: J-2-00-SF
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s): Hydraulic Mining Debris (MU142)
Principal Investigator(s): Bruce Jaffe
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Ryan Leech, Richard Smith
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Mercury levels from hydraulic mining (1800s). Ground truthing, box coring, gravity coring.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Benicia, CA
End Port/Location: Benicia, CA
Start Date: 2000-03-20
End Date: 2000-03-27
Equipment Used: gravitycore, GPS, boxcore, bathymetry
Information to be Derived: Grain size, mining debris
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected ~25 gravity cores and 9 box cores in San Pablo and Suisun Bays (North San Francisco Bay).
Staff: Jenifer Agee, Roberto Anima, Anja Boelm, Ryan Leech, Jim Lugosi, Mark Marvin, Walt Olson, Kathy Presto, Gordon Smith, Richard Smith
Affiliate Staff:
Heather Little (UCSC) - Labor
Alexa La Plante (UCSC) - Labor
Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bruce Jaffe (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Richard Smith (USGS Western Region) - Scientist
Mark Marvin (USGS Western Region) - Biologist
Walt Olson (USGS Western Region) - Marine Technician
Gordon Smith (USGS Western Region) - Captain
Jenifer Agee (USGS Western Region) - Biologist
Ryan Leech (USGS Western Region/eco) - Labor
Kathy Presto (USGS Western Region) - Navigation
Roberto Anima (USGS Western Region) - Scientist
Jim Lugosi (USGS Western Region/ECO) - Labor
Heather Little (UCSC) - Labor
Anja Boelm (UCSC) - Labor
Alexa La Plante (UCSC) - Labor
Location:
San Pablo Bay
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 38.12025 | South: 38.02583 | West: -122.462 | East: -122.02846 |
Platform(s):
 David Johnston |
Fregoso, T.A., Foxgrover, A.C., Kharrazi, B., Jaffe, B.E., 2025, Estimates of percent sand in cores collected in San Francisco Bay, California from 1990-2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9Y7W1ZM.
Fregoso, T.A., Woodrow, D., and Orzech, K., 2024, Gravity Cores and Box Cores from Suisun Bay, San Pablo Bay, and San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9G7VZZQ.
Jaffe, B.E., Smith, R.E., Torresan, L.Z., 1998, Sedimentation and bathymetric change in San Pablo Bay, 1856-1983: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-759, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr98759.
Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H, Dadisman, S.V., and Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey Selected Single-Beam Bathymetry Datasets, 1969â2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/.
Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H., Dadisman, S.V., Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey selected single-beam bathymetry datasets, 1969-2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds757.
Woodrow, D.L., Chin, J.L., Wong, F.L., Fregoso, T.A., and Jaffe, B.E., 2017, Description of gravity cores from San Pablo Bay and Carquinez Strait, San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1078, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr20171078.
Woodrow, D.L., Chin, J.L., Wong, F.L., Fregoso, T.A., and Jaffe, B.E., 2017, Gravity cores from San Pablo Bay and Carquinez Strait, San Francisco Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release.
