Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-349-FA

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Next-Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast (GX.24.MN00.U0310.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Margaret Palmsten, Mark Buckley

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Legna Torres-Garcia, David Thompson

Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Environmental Data: Wave, Environmental Data: Current

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect data for assessing the accuracy of total water level and coastal change forecasts.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually Grey (GSA)

Start Port/Location: St Petersburg, Florida

End Port/Location: St Petersburg, Florida

Start Date: 2021-10-26

End Date: 2021-10-26

Equipment Used: Other, Pressure Logger, Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP), Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler (ADCP)

Information to be Derived: Oceanographic Time Series - currents, waves and water levels

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: This field activity correspond to service and monitor of real time Sofar wave buoy located at 70 ft offshore from Madeira beach. In addition of the retrieval and re-deployment of an acoustic doppler current profiler (Signature 1000 and Sentinel V) located 5 m water depth off Madeira beach.

Staff: Legna Torres-Garcia, Billy Reynolds, Mark Buckley

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Notes: Project Name: GX.21.MN00.U0330.00 - Next-Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecasts
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-311-FA

Location:

Gulf of Mexico offshore of Madeira Beach, St Petersburg, Florida

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