Field Activity A687SC

Identifier A687SC
Alternate names A-6-87-SC,87031
Purpose Recovery of USGS current meter moorings and GEOPROBE tripods which were deployed during the May 1987, USGS sediment dynamics cruise.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Dave Cacchione, Dave Drake. Recovery data (CTDmeter, boxcore, RhoRho, miniranger, instrumentmooring, Geoprobe) of field activity A-6-87-SC in Off Pt. Sal, California from 07/28/1987 to 08/01/1987
Location California
Comments This is an MMS cruise Staff information imported from InfoBank Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Dave Drake (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Engineering Technician Rick Vale (USGS Western Region) - Electrical Technician Mike Torresan (USGS Western Region) - Geologist Joanne Ferreira (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist Bill Strahle (USGS Woods Hole) - Engineering Technician Cheryl Butman (WHOI) - Scientist Charlotte Fuller (WHOI) - Scientist Assistance
Projects
Platform
Aloha
143 feet
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1987-07-28
End (port not specified) 1987-08-01
Bounds
West -120.851
East -120.786
North 34.9433
South 34.9422
Activity Recovery

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Cacchione, DaveDrake, Dave
Crew members
Michael E Torresan
Scientist, Staff
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Scientist, Staff
George B Tate
Scientist, Staff
Viall, Rick
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Cheryl Butman (WHOI) - Scientist,Charlotte Fuller (WHOI) - Scientist Assistance

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
boxcore Biology, Geology (no data reported)
RhoRho Navigation (no data reported)
miniranger Navigation (no data reported)
instrumentmooring Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Geoprobe Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
navigation Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Global positioning system (GPS) data a-6-87-sc.061 navigation Provisional best file David A Cacchione

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity