South San Francisco Bay Benthic Survey Images

The images contained in this repository were collected as part of the NSF OCE-1736668 project examining boundary layer and sediment dynamics in South San Francisco Bay. The project PIs were Oliver Fringer and Stephen Monismith (Stanford University, Civil and Environmental Engineering), Grace Chang (Integral Consulting Inc), and Andrew Manning (HR Wallingford). Field work was organized by Galen Egan (gegan@stanford.edu), a PhD student in the Bob & Norma Street Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab at Stanford University. Field assistance and planning was provided by Marianne Cowherd (Stanford University), Frank Spada (Integral Consulting Inc), Grace Chang, Kara Scheu (Integral Consulting Inc), Craig Jones (Integral Consulting Inc), Stephen LaMothe (Leviathan Environmental), and Jim Christmann (Monterey Canyon Research Vessels, Inc).

The project consisted of three field deployments: Summer (July - August 2018), Winter (January - February 2019), and Spring (April - May 2019). During each deployment, we conducted a benthic survey to gain insight into the characteristics of the sediment bed. For the summer deployment, this was achieved through sediment core collection. For the winter and spring deployments, we used a Sediment Profile Imaging (SPI) system.