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

Field Activity OB808CA

Identifier OB808CA
Alternate names O-B8-08-CA
Purpose Monitor changes in beach sand volume, distribution
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Patrick Barnard. Data (ATV, GPS) of field activity O-B8-08-CA in Ocean Beach, San Francisco, CA from 11/10/2008 to 11/11/2008
Location CA
Summary ATV-mounted GPS survey of Ocean Beach, with Waverunner bathymetry survey of nearshore region.
Comments rawdata files exist at /rawdata/2008/O-B8-08-CA/bath Staff information imported from InfoBank Patrick Barnard Jeff Hansen Dan Hoover Rob Wyland
Projects
Platform
Waverunners
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2008-11-10
End (port not specified) 2008-11-11
Bounds
West -122.529
East -122.50532
North 37.77717
South 37.71143

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Patrick Barnard
Crew members
Robert M Wyland
Scientist, Staff
Daniel J Hoover
Scientist, Staff
Patrick Barnard
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Daniel J Hoover
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Jeff Hansen

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Profiles, Transects, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation 1
ATV Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
waverunners Navigation, Single Beam 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Patrick Barnard
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-b8-08-ca.060_black waverunners Provisional best file Patrick Barnard
Global positioning system (GPS) data o-b8-08-ca.060_red waverunners Provisional best file Patrick Barnard

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity