Field Activity 2015-670-FA

Identifier 2015-670-FA
Also known as Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment
Purpose Deploy equipment for the Monterey Bay Coordinated Canyon Experiment
Location Monterey Bay, California, United States, Pacific Ocean
Summary Sample locations on FAD 4/12/2016 Deployed equipment
Info derived none
Comments 7 Moorings with sediment traps, acoustic doppler current profilers (ADCPs), and transmissometers 4 MBARI Benthic Event Detectors (BEDs) 2 MBARI Sediment Transport Event Detectors (STED) MBARI Benthic Instrument Node (BIN) Vertical profiler Autonomous Monitoring Transponder (AMT) Wave Gliders Wave Sensor
Projects
Platform
Western Flyer
117' twin hull MBARI, Moss Landing, CA
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Moss Landing, CA 2015-10-27
End Moss Landing, CA 2015-10-28
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -122.256
East -121.60644531
North 37.10776507
South 36.54992757
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Mary L McGann
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Mary L McGann
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Katherine Coble

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Other
Data type: Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Differential GPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity