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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-661-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Gerry Hatcher, Andrew Ritchie

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Interferometric, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect bathymetry and oceanographic data to assess the effects of the 2017 Mud Creek landslide

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Mac Semi G82-0099N

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Start Date: 2017-07-06

End Date: 2017-07-11

Equipment Used: GPS, SWATH plus-M , soundvelocityprofiler

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry, ocean currents

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Caris, GIS, POS-MV, SonarWiz, SVP,. SWATHPlus-M, Tides and YoNav submitted to FAD 11/15/2017

Staff: Gerry Hatcher, Daniel Powers, Andrew Ritchie, Jennifer White

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: patch test 7/6/2017
no time series equipment deployed

Location:

Big Sur, California, United States, Pacific Ocean

Boundaries
North: 35.883374 South: 35.84544449 West: -121.46389961 East: -121.41662313

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
SWATH plus-M --- Interferometric
soundvelocityprofiler --- Sound Velocity

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