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Field Activity Details for field activity R300GC

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AKA: none

Other ID: R-3-00-GC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Colorado River Sand Distribution Monitoring (MU063)

Principal Investigator(s): Roberto Anima

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Michael Hamer

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Survey time variable sand distributions along the Colorado River

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Glen Canyon Dam

End Port/Location: Diamond Creek

Start Date: 2000-08-28

End Date: 2000-09-05

Equipment Used: Kleinsidescan, GPS, mudseis

Information to be Derived: The distribution of sand size along the Colorado River

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Completed side-scan survey of Colorado River/Grand Canyon from Glen Canyon Dam to Diamond Creek

Staff: Michael Hamer, Dave Hogg, Fred Payne, Joseph Rios

Affiliate Staff:
Kelly Mahoney (Volunteer) - Geologist
Lars Neimi - Head Boatman
Dennis Harris - Boatman
Cindy DiFrancisco - Cook

Notes: physical data holdings
Associated activities with Grand Canyon Sedimentologic Engineering: R-1-96-GC R-2-96-GC R-1-97-GC Associated activities with Colorado Sand distribution Monitoring: R-1-94-GC R-1-98-GC R-1-99-GC R-1-00-GC R-3-00-GC R-4-00-GC

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Roberto Anima (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Hogg (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Mike Hamer (USGS Western Region) - Gis/navigator
Fred Payne (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Joseph Rios (USGS Western Region) - Pst
Kelly Mahoney (Volunteer) - Geologist
Lars Neimi - Head Boatman
Dennis Harris - Boatman
Cindy DiFrancisco - Cook

Location:

Colorado River/Grand Canyon

Boundaries
North: 36.94507 South: 35.76981 West: -113.37 East: -111.46322

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Kleinsidescan --- Sidescan
File list
GPS --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data r-3-00-gc.060
Global positioning system (GPS) data r-3-00-gc.061 (Provisional best file)
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
mudseis --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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