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
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location:
End Port/Location:
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 | |||
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North: 34.75 | South: 32.25 | West: -122.75 | East: -116.75 |
Platform(s):
Coastal Surveyor |
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.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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multibeam | --- | Multibeam | |
CTD | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Experiments (geochemical) CTD | |
GPS | --- | Navigation | |
sidescansonar | --- | Sidescan |