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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-610-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)

Principal Investigator(s): Patrick Barnard, Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Alexander Snyder, Andrew Stevens

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect nearshore bathymetry and beach topography in Monterey Bay

Vehicle(s): Ford Explorer - Blue - G62-2733K, Grand Caravan G41-3720L, MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L, MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P, Mitsubishi Outlander G61-0912R

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2019-03-04

End Date: 2019-03-11

Equipment Used: camera, Trimble R10 GPS (AS), Trimble R7 GPS (AS), Trimble R7 GPS receiver, Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9, Waverunners, YSI Sound velocity CTD

Information to be Derived: Nearshore bathymetry, beach topography

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Beach topography and nearshore bathymetry collected during multiple days.

Staff: Patrick Barnard, Jackson Currie, Timothy Elfers, Amy Foxgrover, Daniel Hoover, Cordell Johnson, Joshua Logan, Rachel Marcuson, Brandon (Contractor) Nasr, Schuyler (Contractor) Smith, Alexander Snyder, Andrew Stevens, Rae Taylor-Burns, Sean Vitousek, Jonathan Warrick

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Local Fieldwork, NO OT
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-677-FA

Location:

Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 36.99816566 South: 36.80973309 West: -122.097 East: -121.75476074

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
camera --- Photo
Trimble R10 GPS (AS) --- Navigation
Profiles
Trimble R7 GPS (AS) --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9 --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam
YSI Sound velocity CTD --- Sound Velocity

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