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Field Activity Details for field activity 2004-011-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):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy K. Soderberg

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Visual Identification: Species ID

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom sampling and photography to ground truth multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Chatham Harbor, MA

End Port/Location: Chatham Harbor, MA

Start Date: 2004-05-24

End Date: 2004-06-04

Equipment Used: SeaBOSS, Digital camera

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 4 8-mm tapes of bottom video (A and B copies); 241 still photos of the sea floor (on CD-ROM); 79 sediment samples for textural analysis.

Staff: Dann Blackwood, David Foster, Katherine McMullen

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Project = Sea and Lake Floor Mapping, Sea and Lake Floor Mapping

Location:

Cape Cod National Seashore, Race Point, Provincetown, Nauset Inlet, Eastham, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.1019585 South: 41.61196294 West: -70.13902531 East: -69.8371902

Platform(s):

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Publications

Poppe, L.J., Paskevich, V.F., Butman, B., Ackerman, S.D., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., and Blackwood, D.S., 2006, Geological interpretation of bathymetric and backscatter imagery of the sea floor off eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1048, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051048.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Sample log SeaBOSS Log containing time, position of samples taken, video transects completed, sea floor observations, photos taken.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology
2004-011-FA-OFR2005-1048 (SSS, BATHY, BOTTOM PHOTOS)
2004-011-FA-SC-001 (grab samples)
Digital camera --- Photo
2004-011-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations)

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