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Team tracks currents in San Francisco Bay, hopes to aid cleanups

Posted by: Maven on May 31, 2009 at 6:58 am

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

A group of researchers from San Francisco State University since 2006 has been studying how currents move in the San Francisco Bay – hoping to make it easier to navigate and help clean up spills like the one caused by the Cosco Busan tanker. Now, though, the project is in jeopardy because of a cut-off in California coastal-protection funds.

Operating out of the Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, a San Francisco State field research station in Marin County, students and their professors use land-based, high-frequency radar devices to track surface water movement in San Francisco Bay and the outlying California coastline. The study is part of the Coastal Ocean Currents Monitoring Program, which looks at tidal movement along the entire California coastline.

The radar devices, which look like large radio antennas, are strategically placed around the bay in places where the public will not easily be able tamper with them.

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May 31, 2009 · Filed Under Bay Area

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