Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station

05 Aug, 09 AM - 17 Aug, 05 PM

Our lab has worked closely with SeaRobotics to develop a modular unmanned 4m long vessel to perform acoustic surveys in shallow coastal waters (e.g., estuarine systems). The modular design permits the vessel to be broken down and shipped for operations in remote regions (e.g., Arctic). The vessel is capable of executing a pre- programmed transect series collecting repeatable, high-resolution, spatially-referenced physical and biological data which is telemetered in real-time back to the base station. In its current configuration it is equipped with a calibrated split-beam echosounder (Simrad EK60, 120 kHz), an imaging sonar (Soundmetrics DIDSON, 1.8MHz) and wide-swath multibeam echosounder (Mesotech M3 multimode sonar). Most recently this has been modified to participate in a dye-tracer study in a shallow water tropical lagoon and instrumented with a CTD. The ASV is capable of simultaneously collecting high-resolution data of the substrate characteristics, bathymetry and the organisms distributed above the seabed and capable of carrying additional payload components (e.g., water samplers, passive acoustic receivers, etc.).

Visit #72003 @Richard B. Gump South Pacific Research Station

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Under Project # 6200 | Research

Moorea Coral Reef LTER - Monitoring Studies

research_scientist - University of California, Santa Barbara

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Kevin Boswell Aug 6 - 11, 2021 (6 days)
David Wells Aug 5 - 17, 2021 (13 days)

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Bed in shared room 1 Aug 6 - 12, 2021
Bed in private room 1 Aug 6 - 12, 2021