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Field Activity Details for field activity 1995-001-FA

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Other ID: JD95-1

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Roman Zajac - UNH; Ralph Lewis - LISRC, CGNHS

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Visual Identification: Species ID

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom photography, textural, geochemical, and biological sampling in sidescan areas off Norwalk, Milford, and Clinton, Connecticut during Nov. 1993 and June 1994 cruises.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Old Lyme, CT

End Port/Location: Milford, CT

Start Date: 1995-04-25

End Date: 1995-05-03

Equipment Used: DGPS, Van Veen grab sampler, SeaBOSS, Video camera - deep sea, Camera- deep sea

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Staff:
R. Lewis
M. Cohen - LISRC; D. Toderlund - USCG; R. Zajac
S. Wilson
D. Selger
J. Dogiallo
C. Dodson
J. Howald
N. Zackeo - UNH

Notes: Cruise represents efforts to characterize spring benthic communities and textural distributions and comparison to summer conditions during August 1995 cruise. Original Center People field contained: Larry Poppe - Ch. Sci., Dann Blackwood - Photog.
Project = CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies, CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies

Location:

central Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.2677145 South: 40.98531195 West: -73.34625097 East: -72.51525879

Platform(s):

photo of Dempsey
Dempsey

Publications

Poppe, L.J., Harmon, A.E., Taylor, B.B., Blackwood, D.S., and Lewis, R.S., 1995, Texture of surficial sediments in north-central Long Island sound off Hammonasset Beach State Park, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-556, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr95556.

Poppe, L.J., Polloni, C., eds., 1998, Long Island Sound environmental studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (98-502), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98502.

Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Blackwood, D., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Texture of surficial sediments in central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-014, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9614.

Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Blackwood, D., Harmon, A.E., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Texture of surficial sediments in western Long Island Sound off the Norwalk Islands, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-008, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr968.

Poppe, L.J., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Mlodzinska, Z.J., Pratt, S.E., Taylor, B.B., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Organic carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen concentrations in surficial sediments from western Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-708, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr96708.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, sample locations, maps of sample locations.
Sample log SeaBOSS Station log containing video, still camera and grab sample information for Hammonasset, CT survey, April 25 and May 2, 1995.
Sample log (document not focused on specific equipment) Station log containing video, still camera and grab sample information for Norwalk, CT survey, April 27-30, 1995.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
1995-001-FA-SC-001 (GRAB samples)
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology
Video camera - deep sea --- Video
Camera- deep sea --- Photo

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