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Field Activity Details for field activity TD108MB

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AKA: none

Other ID: T-D1-08-MB,BIOSPACE

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Monterey Bay (MU181)

Principal Investigator(s): Curt Storlazzi

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Joshua Logan

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Understand the influence of oceanographic processes on inner shelf sediment mobility during the upwelling season

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Moss Landing harbor

End Port/Location: Moss Landing harbor

Start Date: 2008-05-30

End Date: 2008-07-28

Equipment Used: ADCP, ADP, OBS sensor, CT sensor, LISST, HD video camera system, GPS

Information to be Derived: Tides, waves, currents, temperature, salinity, optical backscatter, acoustic backscatter, grain size, and seafloor imagery.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Joshua Logan, Kathy Presto

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: planned; 1-2 days; deployment of tripod. Associated with the NRL BIOSPACE 2008 program. Associated with field activity t-r1-08-mb.Associated with field activity s-5-08-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 - Chief Scientist
Josh Logan - Geographer
Kathy Presto - Oceanographer

Location:

northeastern Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 36.945 South: 36.944 West: -121.913 East: -121.911

Platform(s):

photo of Point Sur
Point Sur

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ADCP --- Current
ADP --- Current
OBS sensor --- Turbidity
CT sensor --- Conductivity
Temperature
LISST --- Turbidity
HD video camera system --- Video
GPS --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data t-d1-08-mb.060 (Provisional best file)

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