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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CCT02

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Plant

Affiliate Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood

Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To continue to collect data relavent to coastal change and sediment transport properties of barrier island systems

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

Start Date: 2013-01-28

End Date: 2013-02-02

Equipment Used: Choke Ring Antenna, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Water Level Recorder, Tripods, Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus), GPS , Digital Camera

Information to be Derived: Sediment Transport Rates, Wave height, Current velocity, Water Temperature

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Jetting instruments and inserting into the subsurface, Using SCUBA to retrieve and deploy pressure/temperature Seabird Gauges

Staff: Kyle Kelso

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment Used: Batteries, Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA)
White Ford Excursion used.

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 30.1729321 South: 29.52829452 West: -89.1259 East: -88.31423565

Platform(s):


Leased Vessel

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Water Level Recorder --- Benchmarks
Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Sea-Bird Wave and Tide Logger (SBE 26plus) --- Temperature
Tide
Wave
Mooring (physical oceanography)
GPS --- Navigation
No data was collected
Digital Camera --- Photo
Video

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