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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-652-FA

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AKA: Southern Monterey Bay Fall 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): Jonathan Warrick, Patrick Barnard

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Andrew Stevens, Alexander Snyder

Data Type(s): Sonar: Sound Velocity, Sonar: Single Beam, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Imagery: Photo

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: 2021-09-07

End Date: 2021-09-15

Equipment Used: YSI Sound velocity CTD, Waverunners, Echosounder-2, Echosounder-1, Waverunners, Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG), Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9, Trimble R7 GPS receiver, Trimble R7 GPS (AS), Trimble R10 GPS (AS), Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG), Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9, Trimble R7 GPS receiver, Trimble R7 GPS (AS), Trimble R10 GPS (AS), Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft, camera

Information to be Derived: Beach topography, nearhsore bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: collected bathymetric data in the surfzone using single beam sonar mounted on PWCs and topographic data on the beach using ATVs.

Staff: Jonathan Warrick, Andrew Stevens, Alexander Snyder, Andrea O'Neill, Jennifer McKee, Daniel Hoover, Timothy Elfers, Jackson Currie

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-617-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
YSI Sound velocity CTD --- CTD
Sound Velocity
Waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam
Echosounder-2 --- Single Beam
Echosounder-1 --- Single Beam
Waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam
Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9 --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS (AS) --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R10 GPS (AS) --- Navigation
Profiles
Trimble R7 GPS receiver (EG) --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9 --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS receiver --- Benchmarks
LIDAR
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R7 GPS (AS) --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Profiles
Transects
Trimble R10 GPS (AS) --- Navigation
Profiles
Structure from Motion - crewed aircraft --- Photo
camera --- Photo

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