Fiscal Year	2009
Division	Graduate School of Engineering & Applied Science
Department	Oceanography
Investigator(s)	MacMahan, James H.
Sponsor	Office of Naval Research (Navy)
Summary	The goal of the NPS effort is to field evaluate the QinetiQ North America river drifters in a number of natural rivers. QinetiQ North America will provide two river drifters that measure river bottom, position, and temperature. In addition to the deployment of QinetiQ river drifters, we will deploy 20 NPS GPS-equipped river drifters to evaluate the drifter trajectories. We will perform various deployment schemes to determine spatial coverage and determine the number of drifters influenced by river dead zones. We plan to perform deployments in the Sacramento River, CA; Kootenai River, ID; and Elkhorn Slough, Monterey Bay, CA. A database of drifter behavior will be obtained and shared amongst other riverine programs sponsored by the ONR Coastal Geosciences.
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