Field Activity M105NC

Identifier M105NC
Alternate names M-1-05-NC
Purpose To continue mapping of the outer and mid continental shelf of north-central California, and to ground truth side-scanning sonar images with underwater video.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary,Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute,Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary,Moss Landing Marine Laboratories,Point Reyes Bird Observatory. Chief Scientists: Roberto Anima, John Chin. Sidescan Sonar and Video data (sidescansonar) of field activity M-1-05-NC in North-central California coast from 04/22/2005 to 05/05/2005
Location North-central California coast
Summary Collected approximately 117 line kilometers of side-scanning sonar data and 50 km of underwater video footage of the areas surveyed.
Info derived Extent and morphology of offshore rock outcrops within the Gulf of the Farallones and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries. Bio diversity survey across the areas covered.
Comments Associated cruises in northern California: M-1-03-NC M-1-04-NC M-1-05-NC Collaboration with Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS), Fort Mason, Building 201, San Francisco, CA 94123 (Jan Roletto) Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), 7770 Sandholt Road, Moss Landing, California 96039-9644(Chris Grech) Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), 299 Foam Street, Monterey, CA 93940 (Jean de Marignac) Moss Landing Marine Laboratories (MLML), 8272 Moss Landing Road, Moss Landing, California 95039 (Lee Murai) Point Reyes Bird Observatory (PRBO), 4990 Shoreline Highway, Stinson Beach, California 94970 (Sue Abbott) Staff information imported from InfoBank Roberto Anima John Chin Jan Roletto Jean de Marignac Sue Abbott Nicole Capps Paul Chetirkin Bridget Dobrowsky Jessica Futch Greg Gabel Chris Grech Jamie Hall Gerry Hatcher Jaime Jahncke Carol Keiper Robert Lea Shannon Lyday Lee Murai Eleyne Phillips Luis Rodriguez Ben Saenz Robert Schwemmer Sarah Smith Lisa Uttal Sophie Webb Duncan Wright Non USGS data manager = Roberto J. Anima
Projects
Platform
MacArthur II
Itinerary
Start Redwood City, CA. 2005-04-22
End Redwood City, CA. 2005-05-05
Bounds
West -123.607
East -121.65201
North 38.14188
South 35.95932
Activity Sidescan Sonar and Video

Personnel

Organization
Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary
Organization
Moss Landing, CA95039
Organization
Moss Landing Marine Laboratories
Moss Landing, CA
Organization
299 Foam Street
Monterey, CA93940
(831) 647-4201
Organization
Point Reyes Bird Observatory
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Anima, RobertoChin, John
Crew members
Gerald Hatcher
Scientist, Staff
Anima, Roberto
Scientist, Staff
Chin, John
Scientist, Staff
Capps, Nicole
Scientist, Staff
Dobrowsky, Bridget
Scientist, Staff
Futch, Jessica
Scientist, Staff
Gabel, Greg
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Jan Roletto,Jean de Marignac,Paul Chetirkin,Chris Grech,Jamie Hall,Jaime Jahncke,Carol Keiper,Robert Lea,Shannon Lyday,Lee Murai,Eleyne Phillips,Luis Rodriguez,Ben Saenz,Robert Schwemmer,Sarah Smith,Lisa Uttal,Sophie Webb,Duncan Wright

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Video, Navigation, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
underwater video Video (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 3
sidescansonar Sidescan 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Roberto Anima
Global positioning system (GPS) data m-1-05-nc.064 GPS Provisional best file Roberto Anima
Global positioning system (GPS) data m-1-05-nc.064_eotcssp GPS Roberto Anima
File list sidescansonar Roberto Anima

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity