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Field Activity Details for field activity C199SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: C-1-99-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Pacific Seafloor Mapping Project (ZP000LD)

Principal Investigator(s): Jim Gardner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Peter Dartnell

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To map entire continental shelf between Long Beach and Newport Beach

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Start Date: 1999-04-14

End Date: 1999-05-18

Equipment Used: multibeam, CTD, GPS, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived: digital bathymetry and backscatter of entire shelf

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collect >600 million georeferenced, coregistered bathymetric soundings and backscatter values

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: For raw and intermediate data sets, contact Rani Nandiwada

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Long Beach Shelf

Boundaries
North: 34.75 South: 32.25 West: -122.75 East: -116.75

Platform(s):

photo of Coastal Surveyor
Coastal Surveyor

Publications

Dartnell, P., Gardner, J.V., Mayer, L.A., and Hughes-Clarke, J.E., 2004, Los Angeles and San Diego Margin High-Resolution Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter Data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1221, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041221.

Dartnell, P., Roland, E.C., Raineault, N.A., Castillo, C.M., Conrad, J.E., Kane, R.R., Brothers, D.S., Kluesner, J.W., and Walton, M.A.L., 2017, Multibeam bathymetry and acoustic-backscatter data collected in 2016 in Catalina Basin, southern California and merged multibeam bathymetry datasets of the northern portion of the Southern California Continental Borderland: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7DV1H3W.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
multibeam --- Multibeam
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
GPS --- Navigation
sidescansonar --- Sidescan

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