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Field Activity Details for field activity 1991-007-FA

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Other ID: W-3A-91-NC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): William J. Strahle

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover subsurface moorings #362, 363 and 364 and guard buoys that were deployed in November 1990.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Yerba Buena, CA

End Port/Location: Yerba Buena, CA

Start Date: 1991-03-09

End Date: 1991-03-13

Equipment Used: Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings recovered: 3 (#362, 363 and 364, all deployed FA 90048 WECOMA Nov. 19-21, 1990).

Staff: Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, William J. Strahle

Affiliate Staff:
A. Williams
J. Bouthillette
Hovey Clifford
J. Trowbridge
Wheatcroft - WHOI; Briggs - NOARI; Lesnikowski-Williamson and Associates Inc.; Sherwood - UW; Larison - Moss Landing

Notes: Original Submitted By field contained: Albert J. Williams, III.
Project = STRESS, STRESS

Location:

nearshore Russian River, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;

Boundaries
North: 38.6765463 South: 38.60676564 West: -123.56174247 East: -123.44055287

Platform(s):

photo of Wecoma
Wecoma

Publications

Wiberg, P.L., and Sherwood, Christopher R., 2008, Calculating wave-generated bottom orbital velocities from surface-wave parameters: Computers and Geosciences, v. 34 no. 10, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.010.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
1991-007-FA-OM-001 (mooring data)

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