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

Field Activity ID310SC

Identifier ID310SC
Alternate names I-D3-10-SC,MCT01
Purpose Investigate sediment transport and bypass of Mugu submarine canyon
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Jingping Xu. Oceanographic deployment data (ADCP, OBS3, Poking Eyeball Camera) of field activity I-D3-10-SC in California Coast near Port Hueneme from 04/27/2010 to 05/01/2010
Location California Coast near Port Hueneme
Summary Wave heights, periods, and directions, current speed and direction, sediment concentration & grainsize
Comments Mugu Canyon Tracer Study. Instrument deployment MCT10NWT and MCT10SET Staff information imported from InfoBank Jingping Xu Joanne Ferreira Hank Chezar
Projects
Platform
Shana Rae
Length: 52 feet; Beam: 16.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Ventura, CA 2010-04-27
End 2010-05-01
Bounds
West -119.157
East -119.12411
North 34.10889
South 34.09197
Activity Oceanographic deployment

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Jingping Xu
Crew members
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Scientist, Staff
Henry Chezar
Scientist, Staff
Jingping Xu
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Joanne C. T Ferreira
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Current, Turbidity, Photo, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
OBS3 Turbidity 1
Poking Eyeball Camera Photo (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Station Information OBS3 Joanne C. T Ferreira
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS Joanne C. T Ferreira
Global positioning system (GPS) data i-d3-10-sc.060 GPS Provisional best file Joanne C. T Ferreira

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity