AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi
Affiliate Investigator(s): Ryan Lowe, UWA
Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect time series measurements on hydrodynamics and sediment transport over coral reefs
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Exmouth, western Australia
End Port/Location: Exmouth, western Australia
Start Date: 2016-05-19
End Date: 2016-05-28
Equipment Used: sedimenttrap, Moorings - Tripods, GPS
Information to be Derived: water depth, wave height, wave period, wave direction, current speed, current direction, acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: data and mooringlogs submitted to FAD 10/20/2016 and 12/19/16
Staff: Joshua Logan
Affiliate Staff:
Notes:
Location:
Ningaloo Coast UNESCO World Heritage Site, Australia
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: -21.7588919 | South: -22.06072409 | West: 113.85681152 | East: 114.02984619 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Rosenberger, K.J., Cheriton, O.M., Logan, J.B., and Storlazzi, C.D., 2019, Time-series oceanographic data collected from reef flat and lagoon sediment dynamics packages in 2016 off Jurabi Point, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9PEIA2S.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| sedimenttrap | --- | Geology | |
| Moorings - Tripods | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | Time-series oceanographic data collected from reef flat and lagoon sediment dynamics packages in 2016 off Jurabi Point, Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia (Time series data of water surface elevation, wave height, water column currents and temperature, and suspended sediment were acquired for 6 weeks on a coral reef off Jurabi Point, Ningaloo Coast UNESCO World Heritage site in Western Australia in support of a study on the circulation and sediment transport patterns of these reefs.) |
| GPS | --- | Navigation |
