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

Field Activity S408MB

Identifier S408MB
Alternate names S-4-08-MB
Purpose Measure sound pressure levels from acoustic sources
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientists: Jon Childs, Pat Hart, Larry Kooker. Chirp and Seismic Test data of field activity S-4-08-MB in Monterey Bay off Santa Cruz from 03/01/2008 to 04/30/2008
Location Monterey Bay off Santa Cruz
Info derived Acoustic sound pressure levels as a function of range
Comments 2 days to calibrate sparker and chirp; RTK units
Projects
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Itinerary
Start Santa Cruz Harbor 2008-03-01
End Santa Cruz Harbor 2008-04-30
Bounds
West -122.5
East -121.75
North 37
South 36.75
Activity Chirp and Seismic Test

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Patrick E HartJonathan R ChildsKooker, Larry
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Jonathan R Childs
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sparker

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
RTK GPS LIDAR, Transects, Benchmarks, Profiles, Navigation (no data reported)
Chirp Boomer (no data reported)
sparker Sparker (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity