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Field Activity Details for field activity IR112MB

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AKA: none

Other ID: I-R1-12-MB

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Mudbelt development (MU188)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Ben Norris, Kurt Rosenberger

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover tripods and mooring to understand controls on deposition and resuspension of mid-shelf mudbelt

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2012-10-30

End Date: 2012-10-30

Equipment Used: GPS, tripod

Information to be Derived: tides, currents, acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter, optical transmission, temperature, salinity

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: OLDB2

Location:

CA

Boundaries
North: 37.23013 South: 36.23013 West: -121.904 East: -121.87332

Platform(s):

photo of Point Sur
Point Sur

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data i-r1-12-mb.060 (Provisional best file)
tripod --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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