2008-015-FA (CMHRP activity #2097)

Field Activity 2008-015-FA

Identifier

2008-015-FA

Alternate names

S-W2-08-SC

Purpose

Recovery of mooring #851 ADCP tripod at Site B1; coring for grain size and erosion chamber analyses.

Location

Palos Verdes Shelf, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America, North Pacific,

Summary

Recovered Tripod # 851, time series, 4/29/08. Cored Site B3, grain size, 5/1/2008. Cored Sites B3, B5, and B6, grain size, 5/2/2008.

Comments

Tophat ADCP mount (mooring 851) at B1 recovered by SCMI divers from R/V YELLOWFIN on 29 April. Slow cores for erosion-chamber measurement obtained from R/V SEA WATCH on 1-2 May. Original Center People field contained: Jonathan Borden, Tech.; Richard Rendigs, Tech.; Bene Ferre, Scientist. Data Curator: Kurt Rosenberger. Project = California Urban Project - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), California Urban Project - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Related activities

2007-040-FA: Deployment-recovery

Platform

Sea Watch Length: 65 feet
Yellowfin Length: 76 feet; Beam: 24 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Terminal Island, San Pedro, CA	2008-04-29
End	Terminal Island, San Pedro, CA	2008-05-02
Days in the field	4

Bounds

West	-118.439
East	-118.26722
North	33.74194
South	33.67605

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

Christopher R Sherwood

Crew members

Richard R Rendigs	Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden	Scientist, Staff
Ferre, Benedicte	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Christopher R Sherwood	Specialist, Information
PARTNER,	Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

Pat Wiberg, University of Virginia

Affiliate staff

Pat Wiberg, Univ. of Virginia, Scientist; Joanne Ferreira, Tech. (USGS-PSC)

Data types and categories

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

Moorings

RCV: 851; DEP:;

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Gust Erosion Microcosm System (GEMS)	Experiments (geochemical)	(no data reported)
DGPS	Navigation	(no data reported)
Digital camera	Photo	(no data reported)
Bottom platform	Mooring (physical oceanography)	(no data reported)
Slow corer	Geology	2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2008-015-FA-SC-001	Slow corer	11 samples from 7 slow-cores: see B. Buczkowski's Samples Archive database for additional information about individual samples.	Brian Buczkowski
2008-015-FA-SC-001-01	Slow corer	B. Buczkowski's Samples Archive database: 11 records, sample IDs B3-4, B5-1, B5-2, B5-3, B6-1, B6-2, and B6-3.	Brian Buczkowski