Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe
Affiliate Investigator(s): Ralph Lewis - LISRC, CGNHS, CT-DEP
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom photography and textural, geochemical and biological sampling to map nearshore regional textural distributions in western Long Island Sound.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Milford, CT
End Port/Location: Milford, CT
Start Date: 1997-03-25
End Date: 1997-03-28
Equipment Used: DGPS, Van Veen grab sampler, Osprey camera system
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Lawrence Poppe, Brenton B. Taylor
Affiliate Staff:
Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen
Ralph Lewis - LISRC
Notes: Nearshore sampling along the coastlines of western Long Island Sound in CT-NY to complement the 1996 deeper-water ANDERSON and nearshore DEMPSEY sampling and to complete the textural map/database. Original Center People field contained: Larry Poppe - Chief Scientist; Dann Blackwood - Photographer; Brendt Taylor - Technician.
Project = Sediment Texture: Database and Mapping, Sediment Texture: Database and Mapping
Location:
western Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 41.20711 | South: 40.83875 | West: -73.9194 | East: -72.91626 |
Platform(s):
Dempsey |
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.
Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
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Sample log | Van Veen grab sampler | Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 25-28, 1997, including sample description, video camera transects, and still camera exposures. |
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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DGPS | --- | Navigation | 1997-002-FA-LN-001 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV DGPS MARK, ) |
Van Veen grab sampler | --- | Geology | 1997-002-FA-NL-001-01 (Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 25-28, 1997, including sample description, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.) |
Osprey camera system | --- | Photo Video | 1997-002-FA-VD-001 (2 Hi-8 cassette tapes of bottom video from western Long Island Sound) |