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Field Activity Details for field activity A310OA

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AKA: none

Other ID: A-3-10-OA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coral Reefs (Pacific) (MU071)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: understand the current patterns and water column properties during coral larval spawning season

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Ala Wai Harbor

End Port/Location: Ala Wai Harbor

Start Date: 2010-09-13

End Date: 2010-09-14

Equipment Used: navigation, instrumentmooring

Information to be Derived: tides, waves, currents, acoustic backscatter, water temperature, salinity, wind speed, wind direction, rainfall, air temperature

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Timothy Elfers, Joshua Logan, Kathy Presto, Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Staff:
Jamie Grover (USGS) - mechanical technician

Notes: WS is a weather station onshore. Instruments were recovered on this activity.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Curt Storlazzi (USGS) - chief scientist
Josh Logan (USGS) - physical scientist
Kathy Presto (USGS) - oceanographer
Tim Elfers (USGS) - mechanical technician
Jamie Grover (USGS) - mechanical technician

Location:

Hawaii

Boundaries
North: 21.2877 South: 21.2449 West: -157.799 East: -157.71904

Platform(s):

photo of Alyce C
Alyce C

Publications

Presto, M.K., Storlazzi, C.D., Logan, J.B., Reiss, T.E., and Rosenberger, K.J., 2012, Coastal Circulation and Potential Coral-larval Dispersal in Maunalua Bay, OÊ»ahu, HawaiiâMeasurements of Waves, Currents, Temperature, and Salinity, JuneâSeptember 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1040, 67 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1040/.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
navigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data a-3-10-oa.050
Global positioning system (GPS) data a-3-10-oa.060 (Provisional best file)
instrumentmooring --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
mooring information

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