Summary Information for Field Activity 1998-001-FA

Area of Operations: west Florida Shelf edge, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: March 05, 1998 to March 29, 1998

Chief scientist: Kathy Scanlon

Christopher T. Gledhill, NOAA/NMFS, Pascagoula, MS

Objectives: Sediment sampling of shelf-edge habitats.

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary: Samples were collected by NOAA personnel for Scanlon.

Contact: Kathy Scanlon (kscanlon@usgs.gov)

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Platform Info:

CHAPMAN

Publications resulting from these data

Briere, Peter R., Scanlon, Kathryn M., Gledhill, Christopher T., Koenig, Christopher C., and Fitzhugh, Gary,1999, West Florida Shelf; sidescan-sonar and sediment data from shelf-edge habitats in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-589, CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of99-589/)

Scanlon, Kathryn M., Coleman, Felicia C., and Koenig, Christopher C.,2005, Pockmarks on the outer shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico; gas-release features or habitat modifications by fish?, in Barnes, P.W., and Thomas, J.P., eds., Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing: American Fisheries Society Symposium 41, v. 41: p. 301-312

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Samples