The overall program long-term goal of STRATAFORM is to advance our understanding of the development of stratigraphic units and sequences on continental shelves and upper continental slopes. In this specific project we will obtain high quality measurements of sediment transport in the benthic boundary layer during energetic storms and during periods of high sediment input from coastal rivers (floods) for use in developing and testing models which predict the emplacement and modifications to discrete depositional units.
Description
Chief Scientists: Dave Cacchione, Dave Drake. Geoprobe Deployment data (Geoprobe, currentmeter, transmissometer, pressuresensor, temperature, opticalbackscattersensor, altimeter, CTDmeter, watersamples) of field activity P-2-96-NC in Northern California from 01/12/1996 to 01/12/1996
Location
Northern California
Summary
Time series (hourly) measurements of currents, waves, temperature, salinity, and suspended sediment in the bottom boundary layer (from 20 cm to 120 cm above the seabed).
Info derived
Correlations of sediment resuspension from the bed with energetic waves and currents; estimates of bottom stresses due to combined flows of waves and currents; time-series temperature and salinity data near the seabed.
Comments
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dave Drake (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Joanne Ferreira (USGS Western Region) - Operational Geophysicist
Rick Viall (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
