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Deployment of acoustic doppler current profiler

By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Two women stand on the stern of a boat, they are wearing hard hats, life jackets, steel-toed boots, maneuvering an apparatus.
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Detailed Description

Jenny White (USGS PCMSC) and Lissa MacVean (USGS PCMSC) deploy an instrumented frame in the shallows of San Pablo Bay (northern San Francisco Bay) from R/V Retriever. The instrument is an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler).

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Public Domain.

Sediment Transport in Coastal Environments

USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center