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Field Activity Details for field activity W0612PS

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AKA: none

Other ID: W-06-12-PS

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Western Washington University, Swinomish Tribe, USGS, Western Fisheries Research Center, Skagit River System Cooperative, USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Coastal Habitats in Puget Sound (ZP00AZZ)

Principal Investigator(s): Eric Grossman

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Andrew Stevens

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map bathymetry and channel bottom substrate of lower Skagit River and Delta distributaries

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Mount Vernon, WA

End Port/Location: Mount Vernon, WA

Start Date: 2012-09-09

End Date: 2012-09-15

Equipment Used: soundvelocityprofiler, waverunners

Information to be Derived: channel bathymetry; channel bottom acoustic backscatter intensity; substrate type-sediment grainsize

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jackson Currie, Timothy Elfers, Eric Grossman, Thomas Reiss, Andrew Stevens

Affiliate Staff:
Peter Horne

Notes: Waverunners and small boats will be used.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Eric Grossman
Andrew Stevens
Peter Horne
Jackson Currie
Tim Elfers
Tom Reiss

Non USGS data manager = Peter Horne

Location:

WA

Boundaries
North: 49.75 South: 47.25 West: -125.75 East: -122.25

Platform(s):


Waverunners

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
soundvelocityprofiler --- Sound Velocity
waverunners --- Navigation
Single Beam

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