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

Field Activity 2023-660-FA

Identifier 2023-660-FA
Alternate names WAC23 Turnaround
Purpose To recover two bottom mounted tripods at the heads of Astoria and Quinault Canyons, download the data, and re-deploy the tripods. Surface sediment cores will also be collected via multi-corer
Location Washington Continental Shelf
Info derived Time-series data on currents and suspended sediment. Sediment cores
Projects
Platform
Robert Gordon Sproul
Length: 125 feet; Beam: 32 feet.
Itinerary
Start Newport, OR 2023-09-28
End Astoria, Oregon 2023-10-06
Bounds
West -126.07910156
East -123.75
North 48.48748648
South 45.05800144

Personnel

Organization
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Kurt RosenbergerHill, Jenna
Crew members
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Scientist, Staff
Rachel K Marcuson
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Kurt Rosenberger
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Andrea Ogston, Evan Lahr; University of Washington

Data types and categories

Data category: Time Series
Data type: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Moorings - Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity