Field Activity J498MB

Identifier J498MB
Alternate names J-4-98-MB
Purpose Retrieve and residescan sediment scaring in southern Monterey Bay. Extend sidescan mosaic to area north of Point Ano Nuevo. Collect still camera and video camera photos of coastal cliffs.
Description Chief Scientists: Roberto Anima, Steve Eittreim. CTD Recovery and Sediment Grab Sampling and Seismic and Sidescan Sonar and Video data (Kleinsidescan, Geopulse, underwatertelevision, VanVeengrab, CTDmeter, bathymetry, YoNav, GPS, underwatercamera) of field activity J-4-98-MB in Northern Monterey Bay from 10/21/1998 to 11/09/1998
Location Northern Monterey Bay
Summary Completed 12 lines of side-scan profile and geopulse profile data collection in North Ano Nuevo area. Completed 8 lines of side scan data and data collection and retreival of CTD mooring. Collect cliff photo and video data.
Info derived Digital side-scan and geopulse data, CTD data retrieval. 6 months of data. Excellent land photos of coastal cliffs
Comments physical data holdings Associated activities: M-1-93-MB J-1-94-MB J-2-95-MB J-6-95-MB M-2-95-MB P-1-95-MB P-3-95-MB R-1-95-MB M-1-96-MB J-1-97-MB J-3-97-MB A-4-98-MB J-3-98-MB J-4-98-MB Staff information imported from InfoBank Roberto Anima (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Steve Eittreim (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Pete Galanis (USGS Western Region) - Operations Geologist Jingping Xu (USGS Western Region) - CTD Retrieval Geologist Fred Payne (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician Gordon Smith (U.C. Santa Cruz) - Captain Hank Chezar (USGS Western Region) - Photography Technician Non USGS data manager = Peter Galanis
Projects
Platform
David Johnston
Length 43 feet; beam 14 feet.
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1998-10-21
End (port not specified) 1998-11-09
Bounds
West -122.3752
East -121.85497
North 37.118
South 36.64021
Activity CTD Recovery and Sediment Grab Sampling and Seismic and Sidescan Sonar and Video

Personnel

Principal investigators Anima, RobertoEittreim, Steve
Crew members
Henry Chezar
Scientist, Staff
Jingping Xu
Scientist, Staff
Galanis, Pete
Scientist, Staff
Payne, Fred
Scientist, Staff
Smith, Gordon
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Carolyn Hayashida Degnan
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology, Boomer, Sidescan, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Kleinsidescan Sidescan 2
Geopulse Boomer 1
underwatertelevision Video 1
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
bathymetry Single Beam 4
YoNav Navigation (no data reported)
GPS Navigation 4
underwatercamera Photo 1
VanVeengrab Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity