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 | |||
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North: 41.30933 | South: 40.93822 | West: -73.3327 | East: -71.87325 |
Platform(s):
Seaward Explorer |
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.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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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 |