Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Marilyn ten Brink, Bradford Butman
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Ellen Mecray
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Video, Imagery: Photo, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect sediment grabs, cores, and bottom photos/video for sea floor characterization, sidescan verification, toxicity and geochemical analysis.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Caven Point, NJ
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 1998-09-23
End Date: 1998-09-30
Equipment Used: Slow corer, DGPS, Grab sampler, Video camera - deep sea, Camera- deep sea, Sidescan sonar
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Bradford Butman, Barry Irwin, Marilyn ten Brink, Ellen Mecray, Erin Galvin, Joseph S. Newell, Jamey Currence
Affiliate Staff:
T. Komado - Rutgers University - sampling
Notes: This sampling cruise is companion cruise to the NY Mapping cruise (98013), which it will immediately follow. Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman and Marilyn ten Brink (co-Chief Scientists); Ellen Mecray, Erin Galvin, Jamey Reid (sampling); Barry Irwin (ET); Dann Blackwood (photo); Joe Newell (Mob).
Project = NY Bight Mapping and Sampling, NY Bight Mapping and Sampling
Information from Foghorn: Grab sampler, HDGC (slow corer);video and still camera systems, heavy sampling winch, backup winch (ship or Interccean);DGPS and real-time display of position and sidescan;upright reefers (2), small freezer (1);cell phone;vehicle.;
Location:
New York Bight, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 40.5333 | South: 40.0386 | West: -73.9712 | East: -73.2638 |
Platform(s):
Alpha & Omega II |
Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Knowles, S.C., May, B., and Serrett, L., 2002, Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), offshore of New York, based on multibeam surveys conducted in 1996, 1998, and 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-503, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2000503.
Butman, B., Gutierrez, B.T., Buchholtz ten Brink, M.R., Schwab, W.C., Blackwood, D.S., Mecray, E.L., and Middleton, T.J., 2003, Photographs of the sea floor offshore of New York and New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 01-470, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2001470.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Slow corer | --- | Geology | 1998-020-FA-SC-002 (CORE, GRAB samples) |
DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | 1998-020-FA-SC-001 (CORE, GRAB samples) |
Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | |
Sidescan sonar | --- | Sidescan |