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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-623-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Tide, Environmental Data: Wave, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To Understand The Impact of Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change on Department of Defense Installations on Atolls in the Pacific Ocean

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

End Port/Location: Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Start Date: 2015-04-26

End Date: 2015-05-11

Equipment Used: Other, Moorings - Tripods, navigation, core

Information to be Derived: tide, wave, current, run-up

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 6 months of wave and current data from 20 sites Data and mooring logs for KWA13E23 and ROI13E33 submitted to FAD on 9/10/2015

Staff: Thomas Reiss

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This is the final recovery of instruments.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity I-D1-14-WP

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-647-FA

Location:

Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands

Boundaries
North: 9.47470909 South: 8.67156879 West: 166.781 East: 167.87799272

Platform(s):


Patriot

Publications

Oberle, F.K.J., Swarzenski, P.W., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2017, Atoll Groundwater Movement and Its Response to Climatic and Sea-Level Fluctuations: Water, v. 9 no. 9, pp. 1–18, doi: 10.3390/w9090650.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
Moorings - Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
navigation --- Navigation
core --- Biology
Geology

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