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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-603-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Marine Geomorphology, Evolution, and Habitats (ZP00FE6)

Principal Investigator(s): Guy Cochrane, Thomas Lorenson, Mary McGann

Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles Paull, MBARI

Information Specialist(s): Mary McGann

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: ROV video and coring for sedimentary processes, hazards and benthic habitat ground truth.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, California

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, California

Start Date: 2019-02-04

End Date: 2019-02-14

Equipment Used: grab, pushcore, vibracore, video, GPS

Information to be Derived: Grain size, foram age dating

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sample locations submitted to FAD 3/21/2019 by Mary McGann.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: MBARI is final repository of video data.

Location:

South Central California

Boundaries
North: 35.8 South: 34.6 West: -122 East: -120.9

Platform(s):

photo of Western Flyer
Western Flyer

Publications

Kennedy, D.J., Walton, M.A., Cochrane, G.R., Paull, C.K., Gwiazda, R., Lundsten, E., Kuhnz, L., Lorenson, T.D., McGann, M.L., Nieminski, N.M., and Addison, J.A., 2021, Donated ROV vibracore and sampling data collected during Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute cruises in 2019 offshore of south-central California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9E2OP35.

McGann, M., Paull, C.K., Lundsten, E., Gwiazda, R., Walton, M.A.L., Nieminski, N.M., Lorenson, T.D., and Lee. H.J, 2023, Radiocarbon age dating of biological material from cores collected off central California in 1999, 2006, and 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FWTKZQ.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
grab --- Geology
pushcore --- Geology
vibracore --- Geology
Photographs of vibracores (This dataset includes photographs of 49 vibracores that were collected by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in February 2019 aboard the R/V Western Flyer using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts.)
Location and depth data for vibracores (This dataset includes the location and depth information for 49 vibracores that were collected by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in February 2019 aboard the R/V Western Flyer using the remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Doc Ricketts.)
video --- Video
GPS --- Navigation

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