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Daniel Powers

Dan is a Marine Engineering Technician at the Marine Facility (MarFac) at the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

I have deployed the following equipment and systems: Jumbo Piston Corer, Boxcorer, Smith-MacIntyre, Ponar and VanVeen Grabs, Kasten Corer, Gravity Corers, Seismic Air Guns, G/I Guns, Chirp Echosounders, Boomer, Sparker, and S-Boom Sound Sources, Hydrophone streamers, CTD and Water Sampling Rosettes with Niskin Bottles, Mooring arrays - deploy, recover, and design, Ice coring and hand- and gas-driven coring systems, including Kovacs corers, Rock and Coral Dredges, Benthic Trawls, Otter and Blake Trawls, Mid-water nets, Plankton nets, Bongo nets, IKMT nets, Tucker trawls and MOCNESS Systems.

Professional Experience

  • Working in science support since 2008 and operating boats professionally since 2003

  • Worked for the following institutions, among others: University of Hawai'i, Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), United States Antarctic Program (USAP), Stanford University, San Francisco Maritime NHP

Education and Certifications

  • USCG Merchant Mariner's License - Master of Vessels not greater than 200 tons, on near coastal waters. Sail endorsement.

  • Merchant Mariner’s Document - AB-Unlimited, Lifeboatman, Sail Endorsed

  • Wilderness First Responder

  • DOI Motorboat Operator Certification Course (MOCC)

  • DOI Motorboat Operator Instructor Certification Course (MOICC)

Science and Products

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A small boat sits at a dock.

PCMSC vessel San Lorenzo

Above, the view through the windshield of San Lorenzo reveals a perfect work day on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta near Rio Vista, California.
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
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PCMSC vessel San Lorenzo

Above, the view through the windshield of San Lorenzo reveals a perfect work day on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta near Rio Vista, California.
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Small silver metal boat with USGS lettering on the side, water is splashing up on the side and a small wake is formed.

PCMSC research vessel Parke Snavely

Information about the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center's research vessel Parke Snavely, acquired in November 2007.
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
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PCMSC research vessel Parke Snavely

Information about the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center's research vessel Parke Snavely, acquired in November 2007.
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Five people on a small boat in calm water work on a sampling device being retrieved from the water.

GOMEX box corer

PCMSC uses the GOMEX box corer for collecting soft, deep-water sediment samples.
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Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
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GOMEX box corer

PCMSC uses the GOMEX box corer for collecting soft, deep-water sediment samples.
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Multichannel Seismic-Reflection and Navigation Data Collected Using Sercel GI Guns and Geometrics GeoEel Digital Streamers During the Mid-Atlantic Resource Imaging Experiment (MATRIX), USGS Field Activity 2018-002-FA

In summer 2018, the U.S. Geological Survey partnered with the U.S Department of Energy and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to conduct the Mid-Atlantic Resources Imaging Experiment (MATRIX) as part of the U.S. Geological Survey Gas Hydrates Project. The field program objectives were to acquire high-resolution 2-dimensional multichannel seismic-reflection and split-beam echosounder data along
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Natural Hazards Mission Area, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Large metal sediment coring device on the deck of a ship with a man sitting nearby, preparing a long plastic tube.
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