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USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-642-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Li Erikson

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Daniel Nowacki

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Imagery: Photo, Environmental Data: Methane, Electro-Magnetic: Ground Penetrating Radar

Scientific Purpose/Goals: install CoastCam and collect GPR and methane measurements

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2021-08-23

End Date: 2021-09-01

Equipment Used: Trimble R10, instrumentmooring, camera, Other, groundpenetratingradar

Information to be Derived: coastal imagery, GPR data, methane

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Installed Argus-style CoastCam at Nuvuk/Point Barrow. Deployed RBR wave gauge. Collected ~40 water samples. Collected methane samples. Collected ~5 km of GPR profiles.

Staff: Daniel Nowacki, Li Erikson

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Utqiagvik, AK

Boundaries
North: 71.49006253 South: 71.18421086 West: -157.01657219 East: -155.79166567

Platform(s):


Unknown

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Trimble R10 --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
instrumentmooring --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
camera --- Photo
Other --- --- ---
groundpenetratingradar --- Ground Penetrating Radar
Navigation

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