OCEANOGRAPHER CANYON DYNAMICS EXPERIMENT

Description: A field experiment to determine the importance of submarine canyons in sediment transport along and across the continental margin. The experiment included extensive current and hydrographic observations, submersible dives, and sediment surveys. Duration: 1980 - 1986 USGS PIs: B. Butman, M. Noble, M. Bothner Collaborators: Bureau of Land Management (Minerals Management Service) Publications: Field Activity Reports: 82001, 82020 Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and OCEANOG_C.kml.	Click for a larger image of the map
Links to the Data
Basic Sampling Interval	Data access via OPeNDAP
Hourly Averaged Data

Description: A field experiment to determine the importance of submarine canyons in sediment transport along and across the continental margin. The experiment included extensive current and hydrographic observations, submersible dives, and sediment surveys.

Duration: 1980 - 1986

USGS PIs: B. Butman, M. Noble, M. Bothner

Collaborators: Bureau of Land Management (Minerals Management Service)

Publications:

Field Activity Reports: 82001, 82020

Explore where measurements were made and the kinds of data collected during this
experiment using GoogleEarth (V4 or better required) and OCEANOG_C.kml.

Map of station locations
Click for a larger image of the map

Links to the Data

Basic Sampling Interval

Data access via OPeNDAP

Hourly Averaged Data

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