Field Activity 2018-636-FA

Identifier 2018-636-FA
Purpose To collect bathymetric data and information on the lake substrate in order to guide coring efforts searching for paleo-tsunami deposits.
Location Floras Lake, Oregon
Summary base, field_notes, hypack, matlab, photos, and SVP data submitted to FAD by Andrew Stevens 6/22/2018
Info derived Lake bathymetry, lakebed backscatter intensity
Projects
Platform
Waverunner 1 (SC)
Personal Water Craft
Waverunner 2 (SC)
Personal Water Craft
Vehicles
MarFac; Chevy Suburban - gray; 7 pass; G62-2874L
Itinerary
Start Port Orford, OR 2018-06-17
End Port Orford, OR 2018-06-23
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -124.51939735
East -124.48570493
North 42.90992204
South 42.88060281

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Andrew StevensSeanPaul M La Selle
Crew members
Jackson E Currie
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Andrew Stevens
Specialist, Information
SeanPaul M La Selle
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Transects, Geology, Sidescan, Single Beam, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Radio (base) Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Waverunners Navigation, Single Beam (no data reported)
camera Photo (no data reported)
Trimble R7 GPS receiver Benchmarks, LIDAR, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Ponar grab sampler Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Starfish Sidescan 1
soundvelocityprofiler Sound Velocity (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Acoustic-backscatter data Starfish This portion of the USGS data release presents acoustic-backscatter data collected during surveys performed in Floras Lake, Oregon in June 2018 (USGS Field Activity Number 2018-636-FA). SeanPaul M La Selle

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity