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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-617-FA

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AKA: Southern Monterey Bay Spring 2021

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: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

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

Vehicle(s): MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R, MarFac; Dodge Ram truck G43-1698S, MarFac; Expedition G62-3094P

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Monterey, CA

Start Date: 2021-03-25

End Date: 2021-03-31

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), Waverunners, Echosounder-1, Echosounder-2, YSI Sound velocity CTD

Information to be Derived: Beach topography, nearhsore bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Amy Foxgrover, Daniel Hoover, Cordell Johnson, Joshua Logan, Rachel Marcuson, Alexander Snyder, Andrew Stevens

Affiliate Staff:

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

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-643-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
Waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam
Echosounder-1 --- Single Beam
Echosounder-2 --- Single Beam
YSI Sound velocity CTD --- CTD
Sound Velocity

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