| Identifier | A298SC | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | A-2-98-SC | ||||||||
| Purpose | Collect box core, gravity and piston core samples to understand anthropogenic affects on sedimentation | ||||||||
| Description | United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientists: Homa Lee, Brian Edwards. Sampling data (GPS, echosounder, gravitycore, pistoncore, boxcore, clamshellgrab) of field activity A-2-98-SC in Santa Monica Bay from 08/23/1998 to 08/31/1998 | ||||||||
| Location | Santa Monica Bay | ||||||||
| Summary | Collected 129 samples (grab samples, box cores, gravity cores and piston cores) from 150 stations | ||||||||
| Info derived | grain size, C/CO3, microfauna, organic geochemistry, photographic characterization | ||||||||
| Comments | Staff information imported from InfoBank Homa Lee (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Brian Edwards (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Hank Chezar (USGS Western Region) - Photographer Jingping Xu (USGS Western Region) - Geologist Kevin Evans (USGS Western Region) - Geologist Randy Keaten - Micropaleontologist Tim Elfers (Skidway Inst Of Ocean.) - Geologist/lead 210 Alyson Craig (Skidway Inst Of Ocean.) - Geologist/lead 210 Meg McQuarrie (USGS Western Region) - Navigator Jamie Stocking (USGS Western Region) - Navigator/facs Bill Robinson (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Tech Walt Olson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Tech Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Tech Richard Corrigan - Ship Captain Marcus Ballweber - Chief Mate Russ Brisindine - Chief Engineer Paul Giron - Deck Hand Ricky Labrador - Chief Cook | ||||||||
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| Activity | Sampling |
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2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
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| Principal investigators | Homa J LeeBrian D Edwards | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | Randy Keaten - Micropaleontologist,Alyson Craig (Skidway Inst Of Ocean.) - Geologist/lead 210,Marcus Ballweber - Chief Mate,Paul Giron - Deck Hand,Ricky Labrador - Chief Cook |
| Data category: | Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar |
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| Data type: | Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Single Beam |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| GPS | Navigation | 2 | |
| echosounder | Single Beam | 2 | |
| gravitycore | Geology | 1 | |
| pistoncore | Geology | 1 | |
| boxcore | Biology, Geology | 1 | |
| clamshellgrab | Geology | 1 | |
| imagery | Photo, Video | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Global positioning system (GPS) data a-2-98-sc.060 | GPS | Brian D Edwards | |
| Global positioning system (GPS) data a-2-98-sc.061 | GPS | Provisional best file | Brian D Edwards |
| Raw depth (bathymetry) data a-2-98-sc.300 | echosounder | Brian D Edwards | |
| Raw depth (bathymetry) data a-2-98-sc.300_061 | echosounder | Brian D Edwards | |
| gravity core locations | gravitycore | Brian D Edwards | |
| piston core locations | pistoncore | Brian D Edwards | |
| boxcore locations | boxcore | Brian D Edwards | |
| clamshell grab locations | clamshellgrab | Brian D Edwards |
