Field Activity Details for field activity F109SF

AKA: none

Other ID: F-1-09-SF

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Shoal-channel sediment exchange (MU266)

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Information Specialist(s): Jessica Lacy

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate mechanisms of transport of sediment from shoals to channel, and resuspension response of cohesive sediments to wind waves.

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Start Port/Location: Oyster Point

End Port/Location: Oyster Point

Start Date: 2009-02-23

End Date: 2009-03-17

Equipment Used: instrumentmooring, tripod, samples

Information to be Derived: Current speed and direction, tidal stage, wave properties, suspended sediment concentration, salinity, bed sediment grain size.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings to collect time-series data, and shipboard surveying and sampling during the deployment to further characterize spatial variability in currents, to collect calibration samples for optical measurements of suspended sediment concentration, and to sample bed sediment grain size.

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Notes: Collaboration with UC Berkeley. Platform used: Retriever (for deployment and retrieval), Frontier (for surveying and sampling).

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South San Francisco Bay

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