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Field Activity Details for field activity OB609CA

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AKA: none

Other ID: O-B6-09-CA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coastal Evolution Modeling Project (MU056)

Principal Investigator(s): Patrick Barnard

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Daniel Hoover

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor changes in beach and subtidal sand volume, distribution

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2009-05-26

End Date: 2009-05-27

Equipment Used: waverunners, ATV4

Information to be Derived: Beach elevation and nearshore bathymetry

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: ATV-mounted GPS survey of Ocean Beach, with Waverunner bathymetry survey of nearshore region

Staff: Jackson Currie, Daniel Hoover, Robert Wyland

Affiliate Staff:
Jeff Hansen

Notes: rawdata files exist on /rawdata/2009/O-B6-09-CA/topo OB609CA rawdata files exist on /rawdata/2009/O-B6-09-CA/bath

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Jeff Hansen
Dan Hoover
Jackson Currie
Rob Wyland

Location:

CA

Boundaries
North: 37.77634 South: 37.71127 West: -122.529 East: -122.50513

Platform(s):


Waverunners

Publications

Foxgrover, A.C., and Barnard, P.L., 2012, A seamless, high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the north-central California coast: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 684, 11 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/684/.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-b6-09-ca.060_black (Provisional best file)
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-b6-09-ca.060_red (Provisional best file)
ATV4 --- Profiles
Transects

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