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Field Activity Details for field activity S508MB

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-5-08-MB

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): NRL BIOSPACE program (MU212)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Curt Storlazzi

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect sea floor sediment samples in the northern part of the bay

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz Harbor

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz Harbor

Start Date: 2008-04-11

End Date: 2008-04-11

Equipment Used: GPS, Vanveen grab sampler

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Joshua Logan

Affiliate Staff:
Jamie Grover (USGS
Santa Cruz
CA) - Ship Captain
Scot Lucas (California Department of Fish and Game) - Watchstander

Notes: In support of the NRL BIOSPACE program. Associated with field activity t-d1-08-mb. Associated with field activity t-r1-08-mb. Additional NRL BIOSPACE info: Kindle, J., 2007, BIOSPACE - bio-optical stdies of predictability and assimilation for the coastal environment, FY2008-2012: Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Observation Lab Scientific Presentations, New Brunswick, NJ, 2007. Leonard, N.E., 2005, Adaptive sampling and preditction (ASAP): ASAP October Planning Meeting, Princeton, NJ, 2005. Shulman, I., Rowley, C., Anderson, S., amd Lindle, J, 2006, NRL modeling during ONR Monterey Bay 2006 experiment: ASAP Hot Wash Meeting, Stanford Sierra Camp, CA, 2006.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Curt Storlazzi (USGS, Santa Cruz, CA) - Chief Scientist
Josh Logan (USGS, Santa Cruz, CA) - Geographer
Jamie Grover (USGS, Santa Cruz, CA) - Ship Captain
Scot Lucas (California Department of Fish and Game) - Watchstander

Location:

Monterey Bay off Santa Cruz

Boundaries
North: 36.95356 South: 36.81119 West: -122.038 East: -121.79903

Platform(s):

photo of Parke Snavely
Parke Snavely

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-5-08-mb.060 (Provisional best file)
Vanveen grab sampler --- Geology
Station Information

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