Field Activity B107WA

Identifier B107WA
Alternate names B-1-07-WA
Purpose To collect sediment cores in order to characterize sediment erodibility in Capitol Lake.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Guy Gelfenbaum. Coring data (GPS, push-corer, grab sampler) of field activity B-1-07-WA in Capitol Lake, Olympia, WA from 10/30/2007 to 11/01/2007
Location WA
Summary Sediment cores were collected to be analyzed with a device that measures sediment erodibility (sedFlume).
Info derived Sediment erodibility, grain size, bulk density
Comments Boat was General Administration (Washington State) pontoon boat (no name). Staff information imported from InfoBank Guy Gelfenbaum (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Andrew Stevens (USGS Western Region) - Oceanographer George Tate (Sea Engineering Inc.) - Coring Specialist
Projects
Platform
Boat
Itinerary
Start Capitol Lake, WA 2007-10-30
End Capitol Lake, WA 2007-11-01
Bounds
West -127.75
East -116.25
North 49.75
South 45.25
Activity Coring

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Guy R Gelfenbaum
Crew members
Andrew Stevens
Scientist, Staff
George B Tate
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Andrew Stevens
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation 2
pushcore Geology 2
vanveengrab Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Arc Files Guy R Gelfenbaum
Global positioning system (GPS) data GPS Provisional best file Guy R Gelfenbaum
OFR pushcore Publication Andrew Stevens
pushcore pushcore Metadata Guy R Gelfenbaum
vanveengrab vanveengrab Metadata Guy R Gelfenbaum

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity