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

Field Activity 2006-042-FA

Identifier 2006-042-FA
Purpose Day trips to field test LISST equipment; deploy Mooring #814.
Location Tampa Bay, Florida, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary 2/14 - 2/15: Tested equipment. 2/16: First attempt to deploy mooring #814 (failed) in Tampa Bay. 2/17: Successfully deployed mooring #814 in Tampa Bay and ran additional tests; collected sediment samples for grain size analysis.
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis;
Comments Report submitted 01/22/2009 by A. Orton for Marinna Martini.
Platform
Small Boat
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2006-02-14
End (port not specified) 2006-02-17
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -82.7
East -82.6
North 27.87
South 27.67

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Marinna A Martini
Crew members
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Marinna A Martini
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Victor Levesque, WRD-Tampa; Dave Zawada, USGS-St. Pete; Jordan Sanford, USGS-St. Pete; Becca, Eckerd College; Chris, Physical Sciences Inc.; Chuck Pottsmith

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Sampling, Visual Identification, Location-Elevation
Data type: Current, Turbidity, Biology, Geology, Ground Truthing, Navigation

Moorings

RCV:; DEP: 814;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
ADCP Current (no data reported)
Optical Backscatter Turbidity (no data reported)
Ponar clamshell sediment sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Mooring tripod Ground Truthing (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity