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Field Activity Details for field activity 1996-024-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Marilyn ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Primarily to collect sediment cores; secondarily, to collect bottom video and sediment grab samples to verify sidescan.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1996-06-17

End Date: 1996-06-24

Equipment Used: DGPS, Water sampler, Video camera - deep sea, Gravity corer, 35 mm camera, Grab sampler

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Due to good weather, 100 cores and 62 grab samples were collected for chemical and lithological analysis.

Staff: Emily Banks, Michael Casso, Jane Cookman, Peter W. Gill, Kathy Hall, Richard Rendigs, Marilyn ten Brink

Affiliate Staff:
Earl Young; Bart Kreulen - Wesleyan U.
watchstander; Andy Ouimette - Wesleyan U.
watchstander

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Marilyn ten Brink, Richard Rendigs, Earl Young, Michael Casso, Peter Gill, Emily Bank, Jane Cookman, Kathy Hall.
Project = Long Island Sound Pollution Studies, Long Island Sound Pollution Studies

Location:

Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 41.30933 South: 40.93822 West: -73.3327 East: -71.87325

Platform(s):

photo of Seaward Explorer
Seaward Explorer

Publications

oore, J., Gutierrez, E.G., Mecray, E.L., and Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., 2006, Physical properties of Long Island Sound sediment cores: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2002-372, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr02372.

Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K. Y., Williams, S. J., Crocker, J. M., and Doran, E. F., 2008, Estuarine sediment transport by gravity-driven movement of the nepheloid layer, Long Island Sound: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 28 no. 4, doi: 10.1007/s00367-008-0118-2.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
1996-024-FA-LN-001-01 (JD170 Field Navigation (txt file) June 18, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-03 (JD172 Field Navigation (txt file) June 20, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-02 (JD171 Field Navigation (txt file) June 19, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-07 (JD176 Field Navigation (txt file) June 24, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-05 (JD174 Field Navigation (txt file) June 22, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-06 (JD175 Field Navigation (txt file) June 23, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
1996-024-FA-LN-001-04 (JD173 Field Navigation (txt file) June 21, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes.)
Water sampler --- Chemistry
Video camera - deep sea --- Video
Gravity corer --- Geology
1996-024-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples)
35 mm camera --- Photo
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology

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