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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-641-FA

AKA: Cascadia seafloor geodesy

Other ID: none

Organization(s): Other

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Janet Watt

Affiliate Investigator(s): David Chadwell (SIO) Ben Brooks, Todd Erickson (USGS-EHP-Menlo Park) David Schmidt (UW)

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Start Date: 2019-08-08

End Date: 2019-08-14

Equipment Used: GPS

Information to be Derived: seafloor GPS-A

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Four seafloor GPS-A sites were visited and equipment was recovered/checked. At the Newport and Grays Harbor sites, 3 seafloor transponders were recovered; status of 2 transponders were checked at the Cape Lookout site; status of 2 transponders at Coos Bay site were checked; Wave glider was recovered at Newport site.

Staff: Robert Wyland

Affiliate Staff:

Location:

Cascadia margin

Boundaries
North: 48.22467265 South: 41.9676592 West: -126.2109375 East: -123.48632813

Platform(s):

photo of Coral Sea
Coral Sea

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