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Field Activity Details for field activity 2007-036-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Borden

Affiliate Investigator(s): Jingping Xu, USGS-Santa Cruz, Chief Scientist

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature, Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy subsurface moorings, 1 ea. in Hueneme Canyon and in Mugu Canyon; collect CTD and grab samples.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Diego, CA

End Port/Location: San Diego, CA

Start Date: 2007-09-11

End Date: 2007-09-13

Equipment Used: DGPS, Temperature and salinity, Current, Submersible pumps, Grab sampler

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Success. CTDs: 9; Grab samples: 5; Deployed moorings: 2 (#838 in Hueneme Canyon and #839 in Mugu Canyon).

Staff: Jonathan Borden, Richard Rendigs

Affiliate Staff:
Xu
Jingping
USGS-SC
Chief Scientist; Marlene Noble
USGS-SC
Scientist; Kurt Rosenburg
USGS-SC
Scientist; Joanne Ferreira
USGS-SC
Field Support; Dave Gonzales
USGS-MP
Field Support; Hal Williams
USGS-SC
Field Support

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Jonathan Borden, Field Support; Richard Rendigs, Field Support.

Location:

Santa Barbara Channel, Hueneme Canyon, Mugu Canyon, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;

Boundaries
North: 34.15 South: 34.05 West: -119.267 East: -119.06667

Platform(s):

photo of Robert Gordon Sproul
Robert Gordon Sproul

Publications

Rendigs, R.R., Anderson, R.Y., Xu, J., Davis, R.E., and Bergeron, E.M., 2009, The partition intervalometer: A programmable underwater timer for marking accumulated sediment profiles collected in Anderson sediment traps: development, operation, testing procedures, and field results: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1101, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091101.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
Temperature and salinity --- CTD
Temperature
Current --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Submersible pumps --- Surveys (geochemical)
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
2007-036-FA-SC-001 (grab samples)

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