2007-040-FA (CMHRP activity #2078)

Field Activity 2007-040-FA

Identifier

2007-040-FA

Alternate names

S-04-07-SC

Purpose

Set moorings and tripods, mooring numbers 840-852.

Location

Palos Verdes, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;

Summary

Deployed moorings, collected CTD profiles and slow cores, and processed cores through GUST chamber.

Info derived

Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;

Comments

Original Center People field contained: WHSC mobilization and shipboard - Jonathan Borden, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs. Project = Palos Verdes, Palos Verdes

URL

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2008/07/

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2008/07/fieldwork2.html

Platform

Robert Gordon Sproul

Length: 125 feet; Beam: 32 feet.

Itinerary

Start	San Diego, CA	2007-12-03
End	San Diego, CA	2007-12-07
Days in the field	14

Bounds

West	-118.4
East	-118.3
North	33.75
South	33.7

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Marinna A Martini

Crew members

Richard R Rendigs	Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini	Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Ellyn Montgomery

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

Pat Wiberg, U. of Virginia

Affiliate staff

PSC: mobilization and shipboard - Joanne Ferreira, Kurt Rosenberger, Dave Gonzales, Jamie Grover; Mobilization - Kevin O'Toole; shipboard - Marlene Noble, Jingping Xu; UVA: shipboard - Pat Wiberg, Sarah Lawson

Data types and categories

Data category:	Environmental Data, Geochemical, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type:	CTD, Temperature, Experiments (geochemical), Photo, Navigation, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Moorings

RCV:; DEP: 840, 841, 842, 843, 844, 845, 846, 847, 848, 849, 850, 851, 852;

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl	CTD	(no data reported)
DGPS	Navigation	(no data reported)
Temperature and salinity	CTD, Temperature	(no data reported)
Pressure	Mooring (physical oceanography)	(no data reported)
Turbidity	Mooring (physical oceanography)	(no data reported)
Slow corer	Geology	1
Current	Mooring (physical oceanography)	(no data reported)
Gust Erosion Microcosm System (GEMS)	Experiments (geochemical)	(no data reported)
Digital camera	Photo	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2007-040-FA-SC-001	Slow corer	slow core samples	Brian Buczkowski