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

Field Activity H103HW

Identifier H103HW
Alternate names H-1-03-HW
Purpose Two tasks: groundtruthing Molokai benthic habitat map, and a helicopter overflight collecting multispectral imagery while simultaneously collected water samples for suspended sediment concentrations.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Honolulu, Hawaii,United States Geological Survey, National Mapping Division, Maui, Hawaii,United States Geological Survey, Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota,United States Geological Survey, Water Resources Division, Honolulu, Hawaii,University of California, Santa Cruz,The Nature Conservancy. Chief Scientists: Pat Chavez, Susie Cochran. Geological data (GPS, Niskenbottle, digitalcamera) of field activity H-1-03-HW in Molokai, Hawaii from 07/08/2003 to 07/16/2003
Location Hawaii
Summary Groundtruth Molokai benthic habitat map, helicopter overflight collecting multispectral imagery while simultaneously collected water samples for suspended sediment concentrations.
Info derived Volume of suspended sediment in water column south shore Molokai
Comments Staff information imported from InfoBank Pat Chavez (USGS Flagstaff) - Chief Scientist Susie Cochran (USGS Santa Cruz) - Chief Scientist Eric Thomas (USGS Santa Cruz) - Data collection Greg Piniak (USGS Santa Cruz) - Data Collection Dave Tucker (USGS Flagstaff) - Data Collection Henry Walter (USGS NMD Honolulu) - Data Collection Eric Wong (USGS NMD Maui) - Data Collection Becky Stamski (UC Santa Cruz) - Data Collection Connie Hoong (USGS NMD Honolulu) - Data Collection Bryan Bailey (USGS EDC Sioux Falls) - Data Collection Scott Atkinson (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection Kathy Tachibana (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection Kawehi Soares (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection Tina Lau (The Nature Conservancy) - Facilitator
Projects
Platform
Helicopter
Itinerary
Start Molokai, HI 2003-07-08
End Molokai, HI 2003-07-16
Bounds
West -157.2633
East -156.84866
North 21.2136
South 21.03315
Activity Geological

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Organization
USGS, National Mapping Division, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, HI
Organization
USGS, National Mapping Division, Maui, Hawaii
Maui, HI
Organization
USGS, Earth Resources Observation Systems Data Center
Sioux Falls, SD
Organization
USGS, Water Resources Division, Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu, HI
Organization
University of California, Santa Cruz(UCSC)
Santa Cruz, CA
Organization
The Nature Conservancy
Principal investigators Susan CochranChavez, Pat
Crew members
Piniak, Greg
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Susan Cochran
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Eric Thomas (USGS Santa Cruz) - Data collection,Dave Tucker (USGS Flagstaff) - Data Collection,Henry Walter (USGS NMD Honolulu) - Data Collection,Eric Wong (USGS NMD Maui) - Data Collection,Becky Stamski (UC Santa Cruz) - Data Collection,Connie Hoong (USGS NMD Honolulu) - Data Collection,Bryan Bailey (USGS EDC Sioux Falls) - Data Collection,Scott Atkinson (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection,Kathy Tachibana (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection,Kawehi Soares (The Nature Conservancy) - Data Collection,Tina Lau (The Nature Conservancy) - Facilitator

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Imagery
Data type: Navigation, Chemistry, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation 1
Niskenbottle Chemistry (no data reported)
digitalcamera Photo (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Global positioning system (GPS) data h-1-03-hw.060 GPS Provisional best file Susan Cochran

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity