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Field Activity Details for field activity 2019-668-FA

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AKA: ERO inter-deployment sampling

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other), Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments (ZP00FDB)

Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Lacy

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jessica Lacy, Samantha McGill

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Determine temporal variability in bed sediment erodibility and investigate its causes

Vehicle(s): MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R

Start Port/Location: Vallejo, CA

End Port/Location: Vallejo, CA

Start Date: 2019-11-25

End Date: 2019-11-26

Equipment Used: camera, Gomex Core, GPS

Information to be Derived: Bed sediment grains size, bulk density, and carbon content.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Successfully collected sediment cores and location data.

Staff: Peter Dal Ferro, Andrew Stevens

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-625-FA

Location:

northern San Francisco Bay

Boundaries
North: 38.17127344 South: 37.96368875 West: -122.55523682 East: -121.86584473

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Lacy, J.R., McGill, S.C., Ferreira, J.C.T., Allen, R.M., WinklerPrins, L., and Tan, A., 2020, Hydrodynamic and sediment transport data from Grizzly Bay and San Pablo Bay, California, summer 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9P7I65U.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
camera --- Photo
Gomex Core --- Geology
GPS --- Navigation

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