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Field Activity Details for field activity 1995-014-FA

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Other ID: CHAP95-1

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kathryn Scanlon Catanach

Affiliate Investigator(s): Churchill Grimes - NMFS

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Sidescan, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map surficial geology of deep-water Oculina reef area and observe grouper spawning aggregations using acoustics and video.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Canaveral, FL

End Port/Location: Port Canaveral, FL

Start Date: 1995-02-27

End Date: 1995-03-08

Equipment Used: SIS1000 Sidescan sonar, GPS (wh), SIS1000 Chirp Sonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Nichols, Thomas O'Brien

Affiliate Staff:
Chris Koenig - NMFS
Mark Grace - NMFS
Chris Gledhill - NMFS
Cliff Harper - SSC
ROV

Notes: Project = Oculina Bank, Oculina Bank

Location:

Oculina Bank, Florida, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 28.40187024 South: 27.4698289 West: -80.0625639 East: -79.92067503

Platform(s):

photo of Chapman
Chapman

Publications

Scanlon, K.M., Briere, P.R., and Koenig, C.C., 1999, Oculina Bank—Sidescan sonar and sediment data from a deep-water coral reef habitat off east-central Florida: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-10, CD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9910.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, sidescan and chirp seismic line list.
Data inventory (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's inventory of field data.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
1995-014-FA-SO-002 (microfilm of )
1995-014-FA-SO-003 (Digital tape(s) of SSS/SBTM )
1995-014-FA-SO-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines )
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
1995-014-FA-LN-001-01 (Raw GPS navigation data.)
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar --- Sub Bottom Profiler
1995-014-FA-SE-001 (microfilm of )
1995-014-FA-SE-002 (Digital tape(s) of SSS/SBTM L1)

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