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Field Activity Details for field activity TR108MB

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AKA: none

Other ID: T-R1-08-MB

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): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: measure waves, currents and tides

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz small craft harbor

End Port/Location: Santa Cruz small craft harbor

Start Date: 2008-07-28

End Date: 2008-07-28

Equipment Used: GPS, tripod

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: planned; 1-2 days late July; recovery of tripod #25 Associated with the NRL BIOSPACE 2008 program. Associated with field activity s-5-08-mb. Associated with field activity t-d1-08-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.

Location:

Monterey Bay

Boundaries
North: 36.94489 South: 36.94489 West: -121.912 East: -121.91248

Platform(s):

photo of Point Sur
Point Sur

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 t-d1-08-mb.060 (Provisional best file)
tripod --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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