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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-649-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): High Energy Active Margins (ZP00F00)

Principal Investigator(s): Patrick Barnard

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Daniel Hoover

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor changes in beach and subtidal sand volume and distribution

Vehicle(s): MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R, MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P

Start Port/Location: Half Moon Bay, CA

End Port/Location: Half Moon Bay, CA

Start Date: 2018-07-11

End Date: 2018-07-11

Equipment Used: Radio (base), Other, Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft, Handheld GPS Nomad, Radio (rover), navigation, waverunners

Information to be Derived: Beach elevation and bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Base, Topo, and Bathy data submitted to FAD by Dan Hoover on April 21, 2019.

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Joanne Thede, Daniel Hoover, Andrea O'Neill, Thomas Reiss

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-640-FA

Location:

Half Moon Bay, CA, California

Boundaries
North: 37.503 South: 37.483 West: -122.484 East: -122.452

Platform(s):

photo of Waverunner 1 (SC)
Waverunner 1 (SC)
photo of Waverunner 2 (SC)
Waverunner 2 (SC)

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Radio (base) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Other --- --- ---
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft --- Photo
Handheld GPS Nomad --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Radio (rover) --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
navigation --- Navigation
waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam

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