(a) To detect and measure potential long- or short-term changes in the marine environment adjacent to oil and gas platforms; and (b) to determine whether changes observed in the marine environment during the monitoring period are caused by drilling-related activities or are a product of natural processes. Specific objectives: (1) conduct sidescan surveys at project sites R-8, PJ-1 and R-9; (2) recover two surface guard buoys at each of the above sites; (3) recover 3 subsurface current-meter moorings at the above sites; (4) recover 2 GEOPROBE tripods at R-8 and PJ-1; (5) collect box cores for detailed sediment analyses; and (6) collect hydrographic and suspended matter samples.
Location
Santa Barbara Channel, Santa Maria Basin, Point Arguello, Point Sal, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;
Summary
Moorings recovered: 6? (#327?, 328?, 329?, 330, 331, and 332, deployed FA 88020 FARNELLA Dec. 5-13, 1988).
Info derived
Time series data;
Comments
STRESS moorings.
Project = Sediment transport in storms (STRESS), Sediment transport in storms (STRESS)
USGS Menlo Park: David Cacchione, David Drake, Jim Nicholson, George Tate, Richard Vail, Michael Torresan, Kevin O'Toole, Joanne Thede, Kaye Kinoshita, Leda Beth Pickthorn; WHOI: Cheryl Ann Butman, Rosemarie Petrecca, Charlotte Fuller; 2 scientists (Office of Naval Research); Kathleen Fischer, Patti Jo Burkett, Ward Ozanne
Data types and categories
Data category:
Sampling, Seismics, Environmental Data, Visual Identification, Location-Elevation, Sonar, Time Series
