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): Thomas Lorenson
Affiliate Investigator(s): Charles Paull, MBARI
Information Specialist(s): Thomas Lorenson
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: 2019-11-01
End Date: 2019-11-10
Equipment Used: video, GPS, core
Information to be Derived: Grain size, foram age dating, XRD, 210Pb
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 57 vibracores, 240 pushcores, and recovered 2 benthic moorings placed in 2018
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: MBARI is final repository of video data.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-603-FA
Location:
South Central California
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 35.8 | South: 34.6 | West: -122 | East: -120.9 |
Platform(s):
 Western Flyer |
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| video | --- | Video | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| core | --- | Biology Geology |
