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Field Activity Details for field activity J498MB

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AKA: none

Other ID: J-4-98-MB

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MU182)

Principal Investigator(s): Roberto Anima, Steve Eittreim

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Carolyn Degnan

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Retrieve and residescan sediment scaring in southern Monterey Bay. Extend sidescan mosaic to area north of Point Ano Nuevo. Collect still camera and video camera photos of coastal cliffs.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1998-10-21

End Date: 1998-11-09

Equipment Used: Kleinsidescan, Geopulse, underwatertelevision, CTD, bathymetry, YoNav, GPS, underwatercamera, VanVeengrab

Information to be Derived: Digital side-scan and geopulse data, CTD data retrieval. 6 months of data. Excellent land photos of coastal cliffs

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Completed 12 lines of side-scan profile and geopulse profile data collection in North Ano Nuevo area. Completed 8 lines of side scan data and data collection and retreival of CTD mooring. Collect cliff photo and video data.

Staff: Henry Chezar, Pete Galanis, Fred Payne, Gordon Smith, Jingping Xu

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: physical data holdings
Associated activities: M-1-93-MB J-1-94-MB J-2-95-MB J-6-95-MB M-2-95-MB P-1-95-MB P-3-95-MB R-1-95-MB M-1-96-MB J-1-97-MB J-3-97-MB A-4-98-MB J-3-98-MB J-4-98-MB

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Roberto Anima (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Steve Eittreim (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Pete Galanis (USGS Western Region) - Operations Geologist
Jingping Xu (USGS Western Region) - CTD Retrieval Geologist
Fred Payne (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Gordon Smith (U.C. Santa Cruz) - Captain
Hank Chezar (USGS Western Region) - Photography Technician

Non USGS data manager = Peter Galanis

Location:

Northern Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 37.118 South: 36.64021 West: -122.3752 East: -121.85497

Platform(s):

photo of David Johnston
David Johnston

Publications

Chezar, H., and Wong, Florence L., 2000, Año Nuevo to Santa Cruz, California âA Photographic Tour of the Coastline: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series DDS-61, http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-61/.

Eittreim, S.L., and Noble, M., 2002, Seafloor geology and natural environment of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Marine Geology, v. 181 no. 1-3, pp. 1–2, doi: 10.1016/S0025-3227(01)00258-4.

Wong, F., and Eittreim, S., 2001, Continental Shelf GIS for the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-179, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2001/0179/.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Kleinsidescan --- Sidescan
File list
Survey information
Geopulse --- Boomer
Survey information
underwatertelevision --- Video
Survey information
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
bathymetry --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data j-4-98-mb.300
Raw depth (bathymetry) data j-4-98-mb.300_060 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Bathymetry GIS data
YoNav --- Navigation
GPS --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data j-4-98-mb.060_degree
Survey information
Global positioning system (GPS) data j-4-98-mb.060 (Provisional best file)
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
underwatercamera --- Photo
Station Information
VanVeengrab --- Geology

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