Grant Project Summar:
San Jose State University, Moss Marine Landing Laboratory
San Juan Archipelago Bathymetry Mapping, Habitat Characterization, and Geohazards
Assessment
August 2002 to April 2004 
Project Summary
The San Jose State University Foundation and the NOAA Coastal Services Center studied and carried out the best ways to obtain state-of-the-art, high-resolution multi-beam bathymetric and backscatter data, side-scan sonographs, and seismic-reflection profiles that can be used to improve navigation charts, characterize Essential Fish Habitat, and map faults and potential geohazards that might cause problems on both sides of the Canadian-American International Boundary and within the western San Juan Archipelago. These data were used to produce maps and spatial databases that can support NOAA navigational charting efforts, characterizations of marine habitats, and delineations of submarine geology and geohazards.
NOAA Coastal Services Center's
Role
The NOAA Coastal Services Center helped develop and populate a NOAA Web site with digital data sets, specifically ArcView shapefiles and comma-delimited ASCII files stored on CD-ROMs and associated metadata, to inform the public of project results and for public education and outreach efforts. The Center helped the Foundation plan, execute, and evaluate survey results. The Center also served as a conduit for receiving geospatial data from the San Jose State University Foundation for use within NOAA's nautical charting system.
Grantee Overview
The Moss
Landing Marine Lab, established in 1966 in Moss Landing, California,
is part of San Jose State University. The goal of the Lab is to create
a hands-on, field-oriented approach to its curriculum to place its graduate
students at the frontier of marine science. Approximately 120 students,
9 full-time faculty and 50 staff members work at the Lab and carry-out
dozens of projects each year.
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