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

Field Activity 2021-622-FA

Identifier 2021-622-FA
Purpose Monitor changes in beach and subtidal sand volume and distribution
Location Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA, California
Summary Beach topography data collected with ATV GPS, and beach bathymetry data collected with waverunners.
Info derived Beach elevation and bathymetry
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-647-FA.
Projects
Platform
ATV
Waverunner 1 (SC)
Personal Water Craft
Waverunner 2 (SC)
Personal Water Craft
Vehicles
MarFac; crewcab - G63-2147R
Itinerary
Start San Francisco, CA 2021-04-23
End San Francisco, CA 2021-04-23
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -122.579
East -122.47805176
North 37.80802086
South 37.6058952

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Location-Elevation, Environmental Data, Imagery
Data type: Single Beam, Profiles, Navigation, CTD, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Waverunners Navigation, Single Beam (no data reported)
Radio (rover) Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Radio (base) Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Handheld GPS Nomad Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
YSI Sound velocity CTD CTD, Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Structure from Motion - ground vehicle Photo (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity