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Field Activity Details for field activity C210NC

AKA: none

Other ID: C-2-10-NC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies (MU195)

Principal Investigator(s): Guy Cochrane

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sparker

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Habitat and Geology mapping

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Eureka, CA

End Port/Location: Ft. Bragg, CA

Start Date: 2010-07-19

End Date: 2010-08-09

Equipment Used: underwatervideo, navigation, underwatercamera, sparker

Information to be Derived: Surficial substrate, benthic fauna and flora

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 38 hours of regular video, 21 hours of HD video, ~6500 photographs, 9 sediment samples, 5 seismic lines

Staff: Jackson Currie, Timothy Elfers, Nadine Golden, Peter Harkins, Gerry Hatcher

Affiliate Staff:
Eleyne Phillips - Data Manager
Lisa Krigsman (NMFS) - Biologist

Notes: California Seafloor Mapping Program

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Guy Cochrane - Chief Scientist
Eleyne Phillips - Data Manager
Lisa Krigsman (NMFS) - Biologist
Nadine Golden - Data Manager
Jackson Currie - Electronics Technician
Peter Harkins - Mechanical Technician
Tim Elfers - Mechanical Techinician
Gerry Hatcher - Electronics Techinician

Non USGS data manager = Eleyne Phillips

Location:

CA

Boundaries
North: 40.84051 South: 38.93124 West: -124.531 East: -123.70693

Platform(s):

photo of Coral Sea
Coral Sea

Publications

Cochrane, G.R., 2023, Bathymetry, backscatter intensity, and benthic habitat offshore of the Eel River, California: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P902YIF5.

Portals/Viewers

FAN C210NC has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
underwatervideo --- Video
navigation --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data c-2-10-nc.062 (Provisional best file)
underwatercamera --- Photo
sparker --- Sparker

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