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

Field Activity S205MK

Identifier S205MK
Alternate names S-2-05-MK
Purpose measure coral PAM fluorometry under daily turbidity cycle
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientist: Greg Piniak. Sampling data (wavegauge, opticalbackscattersensor, tempsalinometer, fluorometer) of field activity S-2-05-MK in Molokai, Hawaii from 05/05/2005 to 05/09/2005
Location Hawaii
Info derived daily patterns in light, turbidity, temperature, salinity, wave height, and coral fluorometry
Comments Field data collection in small patch reef area at 21d 04.537N 157d 00.211W Staff information imported from InfoBank Greg Piniak Curt Storlazzi Kathy Presto
Projects
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2005-05-05
End (port not specified) 2005-05-09
Bounds
West -157.004
East -157.00352
North 21.07562
South 21.07562
Activity Sampling

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Piniak, Greg
Crew members
Curt Storlazzi
Scientist, Staff
Piniak, Greg
Scientist, Staff
Presto, Kathy
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Piniak, Greg
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation
Data type: Conductivity, Fluorescence, Temperature, Turbidity, Wave, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
wavegauge Wave (no data reported)
opticalbackscattersensor Turbidity (no data reported)
tempsalinometer Conductivity, Temperature (no data reported)
fluorometer Fluorescence (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Greg Piniak
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-2-05-mk.060 GPS Provisional best file Greg Piniak

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity