Field Activity S909SF

Identifier S909SF
Alternate names S-9-09-SF
Purpose Measure tidal flat and subtidal morphology. Collect baseline data set for change detection.
Description United States Geological Survey, Pacific Science Center. Chief Scientist: Bruce Jaffe. Survey data of field activity S-9-09-SF in San Francisco Bay, CA from 10/06/2009 to 10/10/2009
Location CA
Info derived Bathymetry and Acoustic Backscatter Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: This effort is part of a multi-disciplinary GD/BRD/WRD study entitled, Effect of regional wetland restoration on mud flats of the South San Francisco Bay avian ecology, food webs, and sediment supply . Other surveys included in this effort: S-16-08-SF, S-1-09-SF and S-3-09-SF.
Comments Staff information imported from InfoBank David Finlayson Mike Boyle George Tate Jamie Grover Tom Reiss
Projects
Platform
Parke Snavely
34'
Itinerary
Start Redwood City, CA 2009-10-06
End Redwood City, CA 2009-10-10
Bounds
West -122.224
East -122.10872
North 37.57579
South 37.49089
Activity Survey

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Bruce E Jaffe
Crew members
George B Tate
Scientist, Staff
David P Finlayson
Scientist, Staff
Michael E Boyle
Scientist, Staff
Thomas E Reiss
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
David P Finlayson
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Jamie Grover

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sidescan, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation 2
acousticbackscatter Sidescan 2
soundvelocityprofiler Sound Velocity 5

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format GPS David P Finlayson
Global positioning system (GPS) data s-9-09-sf.061 GPS Provisional best file David P Finlayson
Bathymetry acousticbackscatter Bathymetric survey data were collected in October 2009 just south of Dumbarton Bridge in south San Francisco Bay, California. Portions of the main channel and western shallows/intertidal mudflats were surveyed using an interferometric sidescan sonar system. The bathymetry is provided as a 1-m resolution raster in geoTIFF format, referenced to the vertical datum of mean lower low water (MLLW). Amy Foxgrover
List of data files acousticbackscatter David P Finlayson
png data JD281_SVP.png soundvelocityprofiler David P Finlayson
svp data 280_172321_SVP01.svp soundvelocityprofiler David P Finlayson
svp data 281_190953_SVP02.svp soundvelocityprofiler David P Finlayson
svp data 282_200009_SVP03.svp soundvelocityprofiler David P Finlayson
svp data 283_012057_SVP04.svp soundvelocityprofiler David P Finlayson

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity