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

Field Activity 2016-640-FA

Identifier 2016-640-FA
Purpose Monitor sand movement
Location Capitola Beach, CA, USA
Summary Data submitted to FAD 5/17/2016
Info derived XYZ position along transects for comparison to historical data and beach surface map for extraction of MSL/MHW contours for comparison to historical and later data
Comments No OT required for this activity Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-644-FA Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-683-FA
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Capitola, CA 2016-01-19
End Capitola, CA 2016-01-19
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -121.956
East -121.94828362
North 36.97239326
South 36.97032084

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Patrick Barnard
Crew members
Alexander G Snyder
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Daniel J Hoover
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Handheld GPS Nomad Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Radio (base) Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Trimble R7 GPS receiver Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Trimble R7 GPS receiver 9 Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Profiles, Transects, Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity