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Field Activity Details for field activity L207MB

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AKA: L0207MB

Other ID: L-2-07-MB

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Monterey Canyon (MU184)

Principal Investigator(s): Jingping Xu

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Kurt Rosenberger

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Turbidity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To measure turbidity currents in Monterey Submarine Canyon

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing

End Port/Location: Moss Landing

Start Date: 2007-04-19

End Date: 2007-04-19

Equipment Used: turbiditymeter, GPS, samples

Information to be Derived: Current profiles in the bottom 70m of MSC

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Deploy one ADCP subsurface mooring (#835) in conjunction with MBARI at a location that will also have high resolution multibeam surveys.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 37.29036 South: 36.29036 West: -122.327 East: -121.32723

Platform(s):

photo of Point Lobos
Point Lobos

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
turbiditymeter --- Turbidity
Station Information
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data l-2-07-mb.060 (Provisional best file)
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology

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