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Field Activity Details for field activity 2020-643-FA

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AKA: Southern Monterey Bay 2020

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: Sound Velocity

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

Vehicle(s): Elantra G13-2404R, MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R, MarFac; Crysler G12-0254S, MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Monterey, CA

Start Date: 2020-10-14

End Date: 2020-10-19

Equipment Used: camera, Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft, Trimble R10 GPS (AS), Trimble R7 GPS (AS), Trimble R7 GPS receiver, Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9, Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG), YSI Sound velocity CTD

Information to be Derived: Beach topography, nearhsore bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected nearshore bathymetry and beach topography data.

Staff: Jackson Currie, Amy Foxgrover, Daniel Hoover, Rachel Marcuson, Jennifer McKee, Alexander Snyder

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-661-FA

Location:

Southern Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 36.81767505 South: 36.59381076 West: -121.93123192 East: -121.77439599

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
camera --- Photo
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft --- 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
Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
YSI Sound velocity CTD --- CTD
Sound Velocity

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