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Field Activity Details for field activity J199SF

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AKA: none

Other ID: J-1-99-SF

Status: Completed

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Funding Program(s): Applied sediment transport (ZP009TV)

Principal Investigator(s): Paul Carlson, John Chin

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Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain acoustic & video imagery of sand shoal regions and rock pinnacles

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Start Date: 1999-01-11

End Date: 1999-01-20

Equipment Used: sidescansonar, underwatercamera, GPS, Geopulse, underwatertelevision

Information to be Derived: Morphology of the sand waves and shoals and of the rock pinnacles and surrounding sediments.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Good imagery across sand waves, dredge area and hazardous rock pinnacles.

Staff: Michael Boyle, Henry Chezar, Gordon Smith

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Notes: San Francisco Bay Pollutant and Sediment Transport. From "Western Region coastal and Marine Geology Bulletin", Publisher: Mike Carr, Editor: Anne Gartner, February 12, 1999: CRUISE NEWS: R/V DAVID JOHNSTON In mid-January 1999, the David Johnston returned to central San Francisco Bay for follow-up studies of three bedrock knobs that rise above the unconsolidated sediment to water depths of

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CA

Boundaries
North: 37.92942 South: 37.50867 West: -122.477 East: -122.19342

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photo of David Johnston
David Johnston

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