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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-601-FA

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AKA: cancelled/duplicate of 2016-610-FA

Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Katherine Coble, Joanne C. Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles K. Paull (MBARI)

Information Specialist(s): Katherine Coble, Joanne C. Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Coordinated Canyon Experiment - Turn-around of moorings (MS1, 2, & 3) in the upper canyon

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Ford 650 Box truck - White G71-03559

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2016-04-01

End Date: 2016-04-08

Equipment Used: Other, Sediment trap

Information to be Derived: Mooring instrumentation data (ADCP) and sediment trap samples

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Katherine Coble, Peter Dal Ferro, Joanne C. Ferreira, Cordell Johnson, Kurt Rosenberger, Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: mob 4/1/2016; ship ops 4/4 - 4/8/2016

Location:

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

Boundaries
North: 36.8408706 South: 36.72896872 West: -121.977 East: -121.81749878

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Lisle, J.T., Stellick, S.H., 2011, A survey of microbial community diversity in marine sediments impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic shorelines, Texas to Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1151, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111151.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
Sediment trap --- Sediment Properties
Geology

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