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

Field Activity S409SC

Identifier S409SC
Alternate names S-4-09-SC
Purpose Collection of oil, asphalt, and gas samples from natural hydrocarbon seeps from offshore Pt. Conception to Coal Oil Point, CA
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Tom Lorenson. Data (Bethos Stingray ROV, Contros methane sensor) of field activity S-4-09-SC in Santa Barbara from 06/16/2009 to 06/20/2009
Location Santa Barbara
Comments Stingray ROV Contros methane sensor
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2009-06-16
End (port not specified) 2009-06-20
Bounds
West -120.492
East -119.68482
North 34.45433
South 34.36359

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Thomas D Lorenson
Crew members

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Methane, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Contros methane sensor Methane (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2
Bethos Stingray ROV Photo, Video, Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Thomas D Lorenson
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-4-09-sc.060 GPS Provisional best file Thomas D Lorenson

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity