1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2003-046-FA

Identifier 2003-046-FA
Purpose Deploy 5 surface guard buoys in support of the South Carolina Coastal Erosion Study.
Location Long Bay, South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Successfully deployed 5 guard buoys (#721, 723, 725, 727 and 729, all recovered FA 04007 DAN MOORE Jan. 20-30, 2004).
Comments Success. This field activity is associated with FA 03048, FA 04007 and FA 04008. See paper and electronic mooring logs for additional information regarding deployment and recovery dates and relationships between 720-series and 740-series moorings. Original Center People field contained: Jonathan Borden - Deck Boss; Robert Barton - Mobilization; Stephen Ruane - Instruments/Mobilization. Project = South Carolina Coastal Erosion Project, South Carolina Coastal Erosion Project
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Platform
Nancy Foster
Length 187 feet; beam 40 feet; draft 12.8 feet.
Itinerary
Start Charleston, SC 2003-10-03
End Myrtle Beach, SC 2003-10-04
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -78.8489
East -78.65795898
North 33.80468372
South 33.61108928

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Jonathan Borden
Crew members
Robert W Barton
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Ruane, Stephen
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal George Voulgaris, University of South Carolina
Affiliate staff George Voulgaris, University of South Carolina, Chief Scientist; Benjamin Gutierrez, University of South Carolina

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Navigation

Moorings

RCV:; DEP: 721, 723, 725, 727, 729;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2003-046-FA-OM-001 Temperature and salinity Myrtle Beach mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity