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Field Activity Details for field activity J100SF

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AKA: none

Other ID: J-1-00-SF

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): San Francisco Bay Coastal System (ZP00DMA)

Principal Investigator(s): John Chin

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): John Chin

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sediment sampling to document seasonal changes in bed texture. Response of bed morphology and surficial sediment texture to flow events.

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Start Date: 2000-03-13

End Date: 2000-03-14

Equipment Used: GPS, VanVeengrab, bathymetry

Information to be Derived: Textural

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: San Francisco Bay response of bed morphology and surficial sediment texture to flow events

Staff: Dave Gonzales, Fred Payne, Gordon Smith

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: San Francisco Bay Seafloor and Sediment

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John Chin (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Gonzales (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Fred Payne (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Gordon Smith (UCSC) - Captain

Location:

Grizzly Bay and Suisun Bay

Boundaries
North: 38.11714 South: 38.03577 West: -122.158 East: -121.94113

Platform(s):

photo of David Johnston
David Johnston

Publications

Reid, J.A., Reid, J.M., Jenkins, C.J., Zimmermann, M., Williams, S.J., and Field, M.E., 2006, usSEABED: Pacific coast (California, Oregon, Washington) offshore surficial-sediment data release: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 182, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/182/.

Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H, Dadisman, S.V., and Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey Selected Single-Beam Bathymetry Datasets, 1969â2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/.

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