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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-629-FA

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AKA: Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment (MBCCE)

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):

Information Specialist(s): Mary McGann

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover equipment from Monterey Canyon

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2016-04-11

End Date: 2016-04-14

Equipment Used: Other, pushcore

Information to be Derived: Physical Oceanography, grain size, displaced microfossils

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sample locations submitted to FAD 8/30/2016 Recovered a McLane Profiler, a mooring (with sediment trap), and a Benthic Instrument Node

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional principal investigator: Charles K. Paull (MBARI)
Additional organizations:
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Ocean University of China, the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, England, and the University of Hull, England

Location:

Monterey Canyon, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 36.84544812 South: 36.71417877 West: -122.04279542 East: -121.88708782

Platform(s):

photo of Western Flyer
Western Flyer

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
pushcore --- Geology

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