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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-670-FA

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AKA: Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Mary McGann

Affiliate Investigator(s): Katherine Coble

Information Specialist(s): Mary McGann

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy equipment for the Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2015-10-27

End Date: 2015-10-28

Equipment Used: Differential GPS

Information to be Derived: none

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sample locations on FAD 4/12/2016 Deployed equipment

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 7 Moorings with sediment traps, acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCPs), and transmissometers
4 MBARI Benthic Event Detectors (BEDs)
2 MBARI Sediment Transport Event Detectors (STED)
MBARI Benthic Instrument Node (BIN)
Vertical profiler
Autonomous Monitoring Transponder (AMT)
Wave Gliders
Wave Sensor

Location:

Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 37.10776507 South: 36.54992757 West: -122.256 East: -121.60644531

Platform(s):

photo of Western Flyer
Western Flyer

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Differential GPS --- Navigation

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