Field Activity Z407SC

Identifier Z407SC
Alternate names Z-4-07-SC
Purpose Groundtruthing flying eyball camera data
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Patrick Barnard. Sampling data (boxcore, grab) of field activity Z-4-07-SC in Santa Barbara Littoral Cell from 10/09/2007 to 10/12/2007
Location Santa Barbara Littoral Cell
Summary Sediment to be collected to ground truth video and flying eyball camera data.
Info derived Grain size, visual sediment descriptions
Comments Sediment Transport
Projects
Platform
Zephyr
24 meter pilot vessel (79 feet long; beam 23.5 feet; draft 8 feet) MBARI, Moss Landing. Acquired by MBARI 2001, originally name San Francisco. Retired October, 2012 from MBARI. Purchased from MBARI by Outbound Marine LLC in 2013.
Itinerary
Start Santa Barbara, CA 2007-10-09
End Ventura, CA 2007-10-12
Bounds
West -119.876
East -119.05505
North 34.41278
South 34.08933
Activity Sampling

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Patrick Barnard
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Kurt Rosenberger
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Navigation, Biology, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
boxcore Biology, Geology (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2
grab Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Arc Station Locations GPS Patrick Barnard
Station Locations GPS Patrick Barnard

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity