Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-621-FA

AKA: CCE AUV repeat mapping 2

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble

Affiliate Investigator(s): PI: 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: 2015-12-01

End Date: 2015-12-03

Equipment Used: navigation

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

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Two AUV surveys in the Monterey Canyon axial channel as part of the Coordinated Canyon Experiment. Repeat mapping of surveys from November 2015 (2015-620-FA).

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Notes: Data will be archived at MBARI.

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

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