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

Field Activity 2024-603-FA

Identifier 2024-603-FA
Alternate names Washington Canyons
Purpose Recover oceanographic moorings and tripods in two canyons to collect data on currents, suspended sediment and sediment transport over one year. Collect sediment cores in the canyons and on the continental shelf to determine surficial sediment characteristics such as grainsize, shear strength
Location Astoria Canyon, Quinault Canyon, Continental Shelf Off Washington
Info derived Time series of currents, suspended sediment, temperature, salinity, pressure, water column acoustic backscatter, CDOM, sediment traps
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-619-FA.
Projects
Platform
Sikuliaq
Length 261 feet.
Vehicles
MarFac; Mac Semi G82-0099N
Itinerary
Start NEWPORT, OREGON 2024-03-14
End NEWPORT, OREGON 2024-03-24
Bounds
West -125.72753906
East -124.12353516
North 47.68018295
South 45.93587062

Personnel

Organization
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Kurt RosenbergerHill, Jenna
Crew members
Kurt Rosenberger
Scientist, Staff
Cordell Johnson
Scientist, Staff
Daniel C Powers
Scientist, Staff
Rachel K Marcuson
Scientist, Staff
Hill, Jenna
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Kurt Rosenberger
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Andrea Ogston; University of Washington

Data types and categories

Data category: Time Series
Data type: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
instrumentmooring Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity