Field Activity 2018-670-FA

Identifier 2018-670-FA
Purpose Collect tide and wave data to calibrate and validate wave and water level models to guide the siting of coral reef restoration project
Location San Juan, Puerto Rico
Summary 2018-11-DeployedInstrumentLocations and 2018-11-PPK_GPS_ForLandCamera data submitted to FAD by Josh Logan 11/9/2018
Info derived Water level, wave height, wave period, digital imagery
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start San Juan, PR 2018-10-29
End San Juan, PR 2018-11-07
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -66.12308919
East -65.9733325
North 18.50228992
South 18.43788031
Scuba operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Curt Storlazzi
Crew members
Joshua Logan
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Joshua Logan
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Viehnam, Shay (NOAA)

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Time Series
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
camera Photo (no data reported)
Moorings - Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
San Juan, Puerto Rico, wave and water level data, 2018-2019 Moorings - Tripods Time series data of water surface elevation and wave height were acquired at ten locations for 153 days off San Juan, on the north coast of Puerto Rico, in support of a study on the transformation of surface waves and resulting water levels over the coral reefs. Kurt Rosenberger

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity