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Field Activity Details for field activity 1997-002-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): 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
North: 41.20711 South: 40.83875 West: -73.9194 East: -72.91626

Platform(s):

photo of Dempsey
Dempsey

Publications

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

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
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.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
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)

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