Field Activity 2004-058-FA

Identifier 2004-058-FA
Alternate names S-1-04-SC
Purpose Deploy 2 tripods, one subsurface mooring and 2 surface moorings on Palos Verdes Shelf to measure waves, turbulence, circulation, sediment resuspension, etc.
Location Palos Verdes Shelf, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America, North Pacific,
Summary Moorings deployed: 4 (#757, 758 and 760, all recovered FA 04059 SPROUL June 10, 2004; #759 recovered FA 04060 SEA WATCH Apr. 6, 2004).
Info derived Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Comments This is a Menlo Park cruise; no WHSC personnel participated. Project = EPA Palos Verdes, EPA Palos Verdes
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Related activities
2004-059-FA: Deployment-recovery
2004-060-FA: Deployment-recovery
Platform
Robert Gordon Sproul
Length: 125 feet; Beam: 32 feet.
Itinerary
Start San Diego, CA 2004-02-09
End San Diego, CA 2004-02-17
Days in the field 9
Bounds
West -118.36303485
East -118.3035245
North 33.71196478
South 33.68038564

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Marinna A Martini
Crew members
Affiliate principal Jingping Xu, USGS-Menlo Park
Affiliate staff USGS-Menlo: Jingping Xu (ch. sci.), Joanne Ferreira, Anne Gartner, David Gonzales, Lori Hibbeler, Walter Olsen, Kevin Orzech, Michael Torresan, Harold Williams

Data types and categories

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

Moorings

RCV:; DEP: 757, 758, 759, 760;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2004-058-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity