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

Field Activity 2021-637-FA

Identifier 2021-637-FA
Alternate names FK210726
Purpose To collect baseline information on the mineral substrates, phosphorites and ferromanganese crusts, and the biological communities living on and around the minerals.
Location Southern California Borderland, California, USA
Info derived rock types, mineral types, mineral distribution, biological characterization
Projects
Platform
Other
Falkor
LOA 82.9 meters; beam 13 meters; draft 5.8 meters.
SuBastian
Schmidt Ocean Institute's ROV
Vehicles
F350 G43-2783H
Itinerary
Start San Diego CA 2021-07-26
End San Diego CA 2021-08-06
Days in the field 12
Bounds
West -122.112342
East -117.200932
North 33.761558
South 32.248276

Personnel

Organization
Scripps Institution Of Oceanography, La Jolla, Ca
La Jolla, CA
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Kira Mizell
Crew members
Kira Mizell
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Kira Mizell
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Lisa Levin (Scripps); Paul Jensen (Scripps)

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Imagery
Data type: Geology, Video, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Camera-still Photo (no data reported)
Camera-video Photo, Video (no data reported)
Push corer Surveys (geochemical), Surveys (biological), Biology, Geology (no data reported)
grab sampler Surveys (geochemical), Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity