Field Activity TR313PS

Identifier TR313PS
Alternate names T-R3-13-PS
Purpose Long-term measurement of currents, waves, and acoustic backscatter
Description United States Geological Survey. Chief Scientist: Jon Warrick. Recover/redeploy and maintain two benthic tripods with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), underwater cameras, optical backscatter sensors (OBS) data of field activity T-R3-13-PS in Offshore of the Elwha River delta from 04/28/2013 to 04/28/2013
Location Offshore of the Elwha River delta
Info derived current velocities, wave height, period and directions, water turbidity from acoustic and optical backscatterance
Comments These are long-term tripods that are resupplied with batteries, zincs, and other materials on a 6 month interval. ELW11A1T, ELW11B1T Initial deployment activity T-D2-11-PS Staff information imported from InfoBank Joanne Ferreira Non USGS data manager = Jon Warrick
Platform
Centennial
Itinerary
Start Friday Harbor, San Juan Is., WA 2013-04-28
End Friday Harbor, San Juan Is., WA 2013-04-28
Bounds
West -125.75
East -122.25
North 49.75
South 47.25
Activity Recover/redeploy and maintain two benthic tripods with Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP), underwater cameras, optical backscatter sensors (OBS)

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Jonathan Warrick
Crew members
Joanne C. Thede
Scientist, Staff

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

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

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity