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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-620-FA

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AKA: CCE AUV repeat mapping 1

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Other

Funding Program(s): Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments (ZP00FDB)

Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble

Affiliate Investigator(s): David W. Caress (MBARI)

Information Specialist(s): Katherine Coble

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To use the MBARI AUV in a series of repeat mapping surveys to collect high-resolution multibeam bathymetry of the Monterey Canyon axial channel as part of the Coordinated Canyon Experiment

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2015-11-04

End Date: 2015-11-06

Equipment Used: navigation

Information to be Derived: AUV multibeam bathymetry, chirp sub-bottom profiles, sidescan sonar

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: MBARI will be the primary repository of data. Repeat mapping AUV surveys in the upper and lower canyon associated with the CCE

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Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Data will be archived at MBARI. WinFrog nav.

Location:

Monterey Canyon, Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 36.89441222 South: 36.66450226 West: -122.388 East: -121.77670627

Platform(s):

photo of Rachel Carson (MBARI)
Rachel Carson (MBARI)

Publications

Maier, K.L., Paull, C.K., Brothers, D.S., Caress, D.W., McGann, M., Lundsten, E.M., Anderson, K., and Gwiazda, R., 2017, Investigation of Late Pleistocene and Holocene Activity in the San Gregorio Fault Zone on the Continental Slope North of Monterey Canyon, Offshore Central California: Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, v. 107 no. 3, pp. 1094–1106, doi: 10.1785/0120160261.

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