This cruise was conducted as a part of the sediment transport component of the MMS California OCS Phase II Monitoring Program. Data were successfully collected during the spring/summer of 1987. This cruise was designed to obtain data during the winter season. The specific objectives were: 1. conduct a sidescan survey at project sites R8, PJ1, and R9; 2. deploy 2 surface guard buoys at each site (R8, PJ1, and R9); 3. deploy 3 subsurface current meter moorings at R8, PJ1, and R9; 4. deploy 2 GEOPROBE tripods at R8 and PJ1; 5. collect box cores for detailed sediment analyses; and 6. collect hydrographic and suspended matter samples.
Description
United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Dave Cacchione, Dave Drake. Geological and Geophysical data (rangerange, GPS, integratednavigation, RhoRho, sidescansonar, guardbuoy, boxcore, gravitycore, currentmeter, Geoprobe, CTDmeter, 3dot5khz, underwatercamera, vectoravg, instrumentmooring) of field activity F-13-88-NC in Point Sal, California from 12/05/1988 to 12/13/1988
Location
California
Summary
Moorings deployed: 6 (#327, 328, 329, 330, 331, and 332, recovered FA 89004 FARNELLA Feb. 21-28, 1989). CTD stations: 13; Sidescan sonar: 48 km; Box cores: 6 (processed shipboard by WHOI for E. Crycelius, Battelle); Gravity core: 1; Water samples: 33.
Info derived
Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations; Sea floor map;
Comments
Sediment Transport in Storms (STRESS). SAMPLING PT. SAL, From USGS Eastern Region admincru database... Control # --- 362 PlatformDate ID --- FRNL19881207 Sea Days --- 7 Scientists --- 19 Scientific Days --- 133 WHFC Persons --- 14 WHFC Person Days --- 98 Study Region... Northern East Coast --- N Middle East Coast --- N Southern East Coast --- N Puerto Rico --- N Gulf Coast --- N Virgin Islands --- N
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Drake (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Platform
Farnella
230 feet
Itinerary
Start
Redwood City, CA and Redwood City, CA and Santa Cruz, CA and San Luis Obispo, CA
1988-12-05
End
Redwood City, CA and Santa Cruz, CA and San Luis Obispo, CA and Redwood City, CA
USGS Menlo Park: David Cacchione, David Drake, Jim Nicholson, George Tate, Rick Vail, Kevin O'Toole, Corky Ozanne, Kaye Kinoshita, Barbara Seekins, John Gann, and Lida Beth Pickthorn; WHOI: Rosemarie Petrecca and Charlotte Fuller; ONR: Kevin Briggs, Rick Ray; and Giovanni Bortoluzzi (visiting scientist)
