Field Activity Details for field activity L197SF

AKA: none

Other ID: L-1-97-SF,TIB97

Status: Completed

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Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Dave Cacchione

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Information Specialist(s): Joanne C. Ferreira

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Depth, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Sidescan, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

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Start Date: 1997-12-06

End Date: 1997-12-06

Equipment Used: MarshMcBirney, temperature, pressuresensor, opticalbackscattersensor, transmissometer, altimeter, ADP, sidescansonar, CTD, navigation, Geoprobe

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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: The tripod was deployed on the bay floor for 11 days, measuring water currents and other oceanographic parameters and recording thousands of rotating sidescan images to track the movement of underwater sand dunes. The project is part of a larger study designed to reveal how sediment and pollutants move through San Francisco Bay.

Staff: Joanne C. Ferreira, Dave Rubin, George Tate, Rick Viall

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Notes: Expected date of recovery 12/17/97. Instruments in geoprobe instrument package: 4 marsh-mcbirney electromagnetic current meters (1/2 hr. measurements), 2 temperature sensors (1/2 hr. measurements), 1 parascientific pressure sensor (1/2 hr. measurements), 5 optical backscattering sensors (1/2 hr. measurements), 3 led transmissometers(1/2 hr. measurements), 1 bottom-looking altimeter (1/2 hr. measurements), 1 upward-looking acoustic doppler profiler (continuous 10 minute averages), 1 rotating sidescan sonar (1/2 hr. measurements), 1 ocean sensors ctd (5 minute measurements)

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Rubin (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Joanne Ferreira (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Rick Viall (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician

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CA

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