USGS CMG A-4-03-HW Metadata

Spatially-extensive oceanographic data collection, oceanographic
instrument package deployments, DGPS drifter deployments, acquire navigation 
data and underwater video.

Current speed and direction, temperature, salinity, water depth,
acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter, grain size, Lagrangian current
trajectories.

The vessel-mounted acoustic Doppler current profiler (VM-ADCP) was used
to collect current speed, current direction and acoustic backscatter in
3-dimensions.  The CTD/OBS concurrently collected 2-dimensional vertical
profiles of temperature, salinity, optical backscatter and density.  The Niskin
bottles were used to collect water samples for acoustic and optical backscatter
calibrations.  The LISST collected suspended sediment concentration and grain
size data for acoustic and optical backscatter calibrations.  Nine
bottom-mounted instrument packages were deployed to make long-term measure
waves, currents, temperature, salinity, optical backscatter, acoustic
backscatter, bed level changes and take digital images of the sea floor.  Ten
DGPS drifters were released in sets of 2-4 to track water masses' movements in
a Lagrangian framework.

Field activities A-4-03-HW and A-6-03-HW are related.




Joshua Logan wrote on Jul 21, 2010:


A403HW - Maui, June, 2003 (deployed sediment hydrodynamic tripods, bottom 
mounted ADCPs,
and Dobie wave gauges, AND collected data with a mobile ADCP, CTD profiler and 
GPS drifters).


A603HW - Maui, October, 2003 (retrieved above instruments, re-deployed wave 
gauges).




Curt Storlazzi wrote on Jul 21, 2010:


The instruments recovered in a-6-03-hw were deployed in a-4-03-hw.
There were no moorings- all bottom-mounted instrument packages.
The drifters were just deployed in a-4-03-hw.

Hatcher, Gerald A., Reiss, Thomas E., and Storlazzi, Curt D., 2004,
Application of GPS drifters to track Hawaiian coral spawning:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1309, 14 p.: 


pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1309/



Hatcher, Gerry, 2003,
New USGS Drifters Track Hawai'i Coral Larvae:
Sound Waves, September 2003: 


soundwaves.usgs.gov/2003/09/fieldwork.html



Storlazzi, Curt, 2003,
West Maui Coastal Circulation Experiment:
Understanding the Movement of Sediment, Coral Larvae, and Contaminants
Along Coral Reefs:
Sound Waves, August 2003: 


soundwaves.usgs.gov/2003/08/



Storlazzi, Curt D. and Presto, M. Kathy, 2005,
Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics along West Maui, Hawaii;
PART IV: Measurements of waves, currents, temperature, salinity and turbidity
in Honolua Bay, Northwest Maui: 2003-2004:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1068, 34 p.: 


pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1068/



Storlazzi, Curt D., Field, Michael E., Ogston, Andrea S.,
Logan, Joshua B., Presto, M. Kathy, and Gonzales, Dave G., 2004,
Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics along West Maui, Hawaii;
Part III - Flow and particulate dynamics
during the 2003 summer coral spawning season:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1287, 36 p.: 


pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1287/



Storlazzi, Curt D. and Jaffe, Bruce E., 2003,
Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics along West Maui, Hawaii;
Part I, Long-term measurements
of currents, temperature, salinity and turbidity
off Kahana, West Maui; 2001-2003:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-482, 28 p.: 


pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-482/



Storlazzi, Curt D., Logan, Joshua B., McManus, Margaret A., and
McLaughlin, Brian E., 2003,
Coastal circulation and sediment dynamics along West Maui, Hawaii:
Part II - 2003 Hydrographic survey cruises A-3-03-HW and A-4-03-HW report
on the spatial structure of currents, temperature, salinity, and turbidity
along Western Maui:
U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-430, 50 p.: 


pubs.usgs.gov/of/2003/of03-430/