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Field Activity Details for field activity C105PS

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AKA: none

Other ID: C-1-05-PS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jessica Lacy

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jessica Lacy

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate the influence of eelgrass on near bed currents, waves and sediment transport.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Friday Harbor Lab, WA and Univ. of Washington, Friday Harbor Lab, WA

End Port/Location: Friday Harbor Lab, WA and Univ. of Washington, Friday Harbor Lab, WA

Start Date: 2005-04-25

End Date: 2005-05-09

Equipment Used: opticalbackscattersensor, pressuresensor, CTD, tripod, PCADP, samples

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jodi Eshleman, Dave Gonzales, Kevin O'Toole, Hal Williams

Affiliate Staff:
Skip Bold (Coral Sea Water Company) - Captain

Notes: Seagrass experiment, one ADCP frame and two tripods (collecting data in bottom 2 meters of water column), deployed at two sites: Indian Cove, Shaw Island 4/25 to 5/1, and North Beach, Waldron Island 5/2 to 5/9

Location:

WA

Boundaries
North: 50 South: 47 West: -126 East: -122

Platform(s):

photo of Coral Sea
Coral Sea

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
opticalbackscattersensor --- Turbidity
pressuresensor --- Depth
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
tripod --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
tripod survey information
trbm survey info
PCADP --- Current
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology

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