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Field Activity Details for field activity J399SF

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AKA: none

Other ID: J-3-99-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: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Survey Grizzly Bay and adjacent areas for seasonal changes in bottom morphology and sediment texture

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Start Date: 1999-11-08

End Date: 1999-11-18

Equipment Used: VanVeengrab, boxcore, 3.5khz, GPS, Kleinsidescan

Information to be Derived: Bottom types, unconsolidated sediment thickness, grain size, x-radiographs of box core slabs

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Re-occupied acoustic and sampling grids established on first cruise (Nov. 1998; J-5-98-SF)

Staff: Michael Boyle, Eilleen Brennan, Robin Dornfest, Wilson Lee, Thomas Lorenson, Gordon Smith, Andy Stevenson, Page Stites

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Physical data holdings
San Francisco Bay Seafloor and Sediment. Associated activities: J-2-99-SF J-3-99-SF J-5-98-SF

Staff information imported from InfoBank
John Chin (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Andy Stevenson (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Robin Dornfest (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Page Stites (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Eilleen Brennan (San Jose State Univ.) - Watchstander
Wilson Lee (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Tom Lorenson (USGS Western Region) - Geochemist
Gordon Smith (UC Santa Cruz) - Captain

Location:

San Francisco Bay

Boundaries
North: 38.15802 South: 38.03305 West: -122.158 East: -121.91688

Platform(s):

photo of David Johnston
David Johnston

Publications

Hampton, M.E., Snyder, N.P., Chin, J.L., Allison, D.W., Rubin, D.M., 2003, Bed-Sediment Grain-Size and Morphologic Data from Suisun, Grizzly, and Honker Bays, CA, 1998-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-250, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/0250/.

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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