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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-674-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Applied sediment transport (ZP009TV)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Understand oceanographic controls on ripple-scour depression evolution

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Mac Semi G82-0099N

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz,CA

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz,CA

Start Date: 2014-11-05

End Date: 2015-04-09

Equipment Used: Handheld GPS, Moorings - Tripods

Information to be Derived: Tide, wave height, wave period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter, color imagery

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Data and mooring logs for MNB14CPW MNB14CSW and MNB14SCW submitted 7/15/2016 Data and mooring logs for NMB14MIT submitted to FAD on 9/10/2015

Staff: Joanne C. Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger, Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Turbidity Loggers: Aquatec Aqualogger; 210TYT 024-007
Current meter: Nortec AWAC 600 kHz; WPR2181/WAV6623
Turbidity Sensor; D&A Instruments OBS 3+, T8336

Location:

Santa Cruz, CA

Boundaries
North: 36.99362292 South: 36.90141448 West: -122.054 East: -121.9626709

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Dartnell, P., and Rosenberger, K.J., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2018, Bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter, and time-series datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1W36.

Dartnell, P., Rosenberger, K.J., and Storlazzi C.D., 2018, Bathymetry, acoustic-backscatter, and time-series datasets collected between 2014 and 2016 of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions in northern Monterey Bay, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F71C1W36.

Rosenberger, K.J., Storlazzi, C.D., and Dartnell, P., 2019, Morphodynamics of a field of crescent-shaped rippled scour depressions: Northern Monterey Bay, CA: Marine Geology, v. 407, pp. 44–59, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2018.10.006.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Handheld GPS --- Navigation
Moorings - Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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