Field Activity Details for field activity SW109SC

AKA: none

Other ID: S-W1-09-SC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): California State Mapping Project (MU031)

Principal Investigator(s): Peter Dartnell, Brian Edwards

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Video ground-truthing for seafloor geology and habitat mapping

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Santa Barbara, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Start Date: 2009-08-10

End Date: 2009-08-21

Equipment Used: Underwatervideo, GPS

Information to be Derived: Seafloor geology, biology, and habitat

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: WCMG will collect seafloor video, still photographs, and record real-time observations that will be used to ground-truth seafloor geology, habitat, and character maps created for the California State Mapping Project.

Staff: Henry Chezar, Jackson Currie, Timothy Elfers, Nadine Golden, Peter Harkins

Affiliate Staff:
Eleyne Phillips (USGS) - geologist
Lisa Krigsman (NOAA) - biologist
Lisa Gilbane (MMS) - biologist

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Pete Dartnell (USGS) - Chief Scientist
Brian Edwards (chief scientist, USGS) - Co
Eleyne Phillips (USGS) - geologist
Lisa Krigsman (NOAA) - biologist
Jackson Currie (USGS) - ET
Peter Harkins (USGS) - MT
Hank Chezar (USGS) - photographic specialist
Tim Elfers (USGS) - MT
Lisa Gilbane (MMS) - biologist
Nadine Golden (USGS) - geographer

Non USGS data manager = Eleyne Phillips

Location:

southern CA

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

FAN SW109SC has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired