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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-646-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): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Measure nearshore bathymetry and beach topography in the Eureka littoral cell

Vehicle(s): MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R, MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L

Start Port/Location: Arcata, CA

End Port/Location: Arcata, CA

Start Date: 2019-09-09

End Date: 2019-09-16

Equipment Used: Handheld GPS Nomad, Radio (base), Radio (rover), Trimble R7 GPS receiver, Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9, Echosounder-1, Echosounder-2, Echosounder-3, transducer 1, transducer 2, transducer 3

Information to be Derived: Nearshore bathymetry and beach topography

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Base GPS, bathymetry, and topography data collected.

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Daniel Hoover, Alexander Snyder

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-609-FA (Santa Barbara)

Location:

Eureka littoral cell

Boundaries
North: 41.030555 South: 40.57555 West: -124.375 East: -124.108

Platform(s):

photo of ATV
ATV
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
Handheld GPS Nomad --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Radio (base) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Radio (rover) --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9 --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Echosounder-1 --- Single Beam
Echosounder-2 --- Single Beam
Echosounder-3 --- Single Beam
transducer 1 --- Single Beam
transducer 2 --- Single Beam
transducer 3 --- Single Beam

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