Field Activity 2018-614-FA

Identifier 2018-614-FA
Purpose Investigating the extent of sediment plumes created by mining
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Offshore San Diego
Summary no USGS data gathered.
Info derived Physical oceanographic
Comments Amy Gartman will be assisting Dr. Tom Peacock (MIT) and Dr. Sandor Mulsow (ISA) on water sampling to establish the possible extent of a sediment plume created by mining manganese nodules.
Projects
Platform
Other
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start San Diego, CA 2018-02-26
End San Diego, CA 2018-03-01
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -122.59246826
East -117.59246826
North 33.60304897
South 28.60304897

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
(not identified)
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dr. Tom Peacock (MIT) and Dr. Sandor Mulsow (ISA)

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
navigation Navigation (no data reported)
samples Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity