Current meter observations within lower Cook Inlet, Alaska, 1978-1979 from the R/V Sea Sounder, Pacific-Arctic Branch, U.S. Geological Survey

The U.S. Geological Survey under contract to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management conducted geo-environmental hazard studies within lower Cook Inlet, Alaska from 1975 through 1979 (Bouma and Hampton, 1976; Bouma and others, 1977 a,b, 1978 ; Hampton and Bouma 1979). As part of this effort the U.S. Geological Survey research vessel, R/V SEA SOUNDER, conducted two cruises in 1978 and one cruise in 1979 (Table 1). A number of stations were occupied for various periods of time (Fig. 1) during which tidal current speed and direction data was recorded. Some 1978 data was obtained concurrently with bottom boundary layer experiments conducted with a large instrumented tripod system referred to as GEOPROBE (Cacchione and Drake, 1979).