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Field Activity Details for field activity 2005-018-FA

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Other ID: M-1-05-MB

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Marinna Martini

Affiliate Investigator(s): Marlene Noble, Joanne Ferreira, USGS-Menlo Park

Information Specialist(s): Other

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy subsurface moorings #784 in Monterey Canyon and 785 in Soquel Canyon, Monterey Bay.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Francisco, CA

End Port/Location: Moss Landing, CA

Start Date: 2005-01-01

End Date: 2005-01-01

Equipment Used: Temperature and salinity, Other

Information to be Derived: Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings deployed: 2 (#784 and 785). This report was a place holder for data at the request of Nancy Soderberg. However, data is the responsibility of Menlo, not WHSC.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:
Menlo: Marlene Noble - Ch. Sci.
Jingping Xu
Joanne Ferreira
Kurt Rosenberger

Notes: m784 deployed May 13, 2005 17:57 GMT Drop location: 36 47.452N 121 50.189W

m785 deployed May 13, 2005 22:10 GMT Drop location: 36 50.714N 121 57.801W

See assocated field activities:
M-1-06-MB
Related activity M105NC; deployment of moorings m784 deployed May 13, 2005 17:57 GMT Drop location: 36 47.452N 121 50.189W m785 deployed May 13, 2005 22:10 GMT Drop location: 36 50.714N 121 57.801W

Location:

Monterey Canyon and Soquel Canyon

Boundaries
North: 37.25 South: 36.5 West: -122.75 East: -121.75

Platform(s):

photo of McArthur II
McArthur II

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Temperature and salinity --- CTD
Temperature
Other --- --- ---

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