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Field Activity Details for field activity 2020-013-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coastal Model Applications and Field Measurements (LQ00DYN)

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Steven Suttles

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: deploy pressure logger

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2020-01-21

End Date: 2020-01-21

Equipment Used: Pressure, Real Time Kinematic GPS

Information to be Derived: wave statistics

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: This FA was a bust...we could not install the pressure sensor because the beach had shifted, making our mount point inaccessible. No work was performed.

Staff: Jonathan Borden, Eric Marsjanik, Marinna Martini

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Coast Guard Beach

Boundaries
North: 41.846949 South: 41.841258 West: -69.94943 East: -69.943156

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

Publications

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Pressurecould not install the pressure sensor because the beach had shifted, making our mount point inaccessibleMooring (physical oceanography)
No data was collected
Real Time Kinematic GPS --- Navigation
No data was collected

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