Field Activity Details for field activity 10LME02

Other ID: Xstorms.H20100622

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Karen L M Morgan, Thomas Smith

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Paul Nelson, Ginger Range

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Assessment of Coastal Mangroves after winter freeze and before possible oil contamination. Pre-storm survey of west coast beaches before hurricane season.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Albert Whitted Field, Bay Air Charters, St Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: Albert Whitted Field, Bay Air Charters, St Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2010-06-22

End Date: 2010-06-23

Equipment Used: Digital Camera, GPS

Information to be Derived: Oblique Air Photos

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 11,800 photos using 4 cameras. Cameras used. Karen: Nikon D1X, Ginger: Nikon D40X, Paul: Nikon D70 & Canon G11 (for set up pictures), Tom: Nikon Coolpix P6000.

Staff: Paul Nelson, Ginger Range

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Equipment Used: Batteries, Laptop
Staff: Pilot - Mitch Bobowski
This field activity is being conducted as part of the efforts to obtain baseline information prior to the potential oil impacts from the Deepwater Horizon incident. Weather conditions were sunny on 6/22 and most of 6/23. Skies were overcast in Everglades National Park on 6/23. Photos were taken out the tinted window of the aircraft and some color correction is needed. No Video was collected on this flight. About 20 minutes into the flight Nikon Capture crashed. Restart failed due to an unclosed error window. Once that was closed it operated correctly, however, in the process of figuring it out, Cleo was restarted. GPS data during the restart was recovered from the Commlogger.

Location:

St. Petersburg to Key West, FL

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