Field Activity A197HW

Identifier A197HW
Alternate names A-1-97-HW
Purpose Document the history of coastal erosion within the Hawaiian Islands and understand the causal mechanisms
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. Chief Scientist: Bruce Richmond. Tripod Deployment data (currentmeter, opticalbackscattersensor, transmissometer, magnetics, temperature, pressuregauge, altimeter, underwatertelevision, CTDmeter) of field activity A-1-97-HW in Kailua Bay, Oahu, Hawaii from 05/01/1997 to 05/01/1997
Location Hawaii
Summary GEOPROBE tripod was deployed
Info derived Wave and current measurements, temperature and water clarity variation. Samples collected for grain size analysis.
Comments Staff information imported from InfoBank Bruce Richmond (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Geologist Joanne Ferreira (USGS Western Region) - Dafe
Projects
Platform
American Islander
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1997-05-01
End SAND ISLAND PORT OF HONOLULU HI and SAND ISLAND PORT OF HONOLULU HI(port not specified) 1997-05-01
Bounds
West -157.7157
East -157.7157
North 21.41747
South 21.41747
Activity Tripod Deployment

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Bruce M Richmond
Crew members
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Scientist, Staff
George B Tate
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Electro-Magnetic, Imagery
Data type: Current, Turbidity, Magnetics, Temperature, Depth, Video, CTD

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
currentmeter Current (no data reported)
opticalbackscattersensor Turbidity (no data reported)
transmissometer Turbidity (no data reported)
magnetics Magnetics (no data reported)
temperature Temperature (no data reported)
pressuregauge Depth (no data reported)
altimeter Depth (no data reported)
underwatertelevision Video (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Integrated navigation (SINS) data a-1-97-hw.050 CTD Bruce M Richmond

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity