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

Field Activity K206PS

Identifier K206PS
Alternate names K-2-06-PS
Purpose Measure current velocities and water temperature and salinity in the Swinomish Channel
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Eric Grossman. CTD and Deployment data (ADP, CTD, opticalbackscattersensor, CTmeter) of field activity K-2-06-PS in Skagit Bay from 03/27/2006 to 03/31/2006
Location Skagit Bay
Info derived Current velocities, water temperature, salinity, turbidity, photosynthetic available radiation, dissolved oxygen, Chlorophyll
Comments Sontek ADP, Seabird 19+ CTD;OBS;PAR;DO;Chl, Seabird SBE-37 Microcat CT Staff information imported from InfoBank Eric Grossman (USGS) - Chief Scientist Guy Gelfenbaum (Chief Scientist USGS) - Co Andrew Stevens - Information Specialist USGS Joanne Ferreira - Instrument Deployment USGS Hal Williams - Instrument Deployment USGS Kevin Otoole - Instrument Deployment USGS Jessica Daum - Captain NOAA
Projects
Platform
Karluk
Sold in 2021
Itinerary
Start La Conner, Washington 2006-03-27
End La Conner, Washington 2006-03-31
Bounds
West -122.559
East -122.49682
North 48.45912
South 48.35693
Activity CTD and Deployment

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Eric GrossmanGuy R Gelfenbaum
Crew members
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Scientist, Staff
Andrew Stevens
Scientist, Staff
Daum, Jessica
Scientist, Staff
Williams, Hal
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Andrew Stevens
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Kevin Otoole - Instrument Deployment USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation
Data type: Conductivity, CTD, Current, Temperature, Turbidity, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
opticalbackscattersensor Turbidity (no data reported)
CTmeter Conductivity, Temperature (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
ADP Current (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 Andrew Stevens
Global positioning system (GPS) data k-2-06-ps.060 GPS Provisional best file Andrew Stevens

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity