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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-607-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: UK-ARISE Maldives fieldwork

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00), Coral Reef Science for Coasts (ZP00TY5)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s): Gerd Masselink, University of Plymouth

Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect tide and wave information to calibrate and validate hydrodynamic models to study evolution of atoll islands due to sea-level rise.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Fares-Maathoda, Maldives

End Port/Location: Fares-Maathoda, Maldives

Start Date: 2024-04-01

End Date: 2024-04-11

Equipment Used: RBR Virtuoso

Information to be Derived: water depth, wave height, wave period

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

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Location:

Maldives

Boundaries
North: 0.23 South: 0.17 West: 73.13 East: 73.23

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Other

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
RBR Virtuoso --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Tide
Wave
Turbidity
pH
ORP
Fluorescence
Dissolved Oxygen
Temperature
Pressure
CTD

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