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): Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom photography and textural, geochemical, and biological sampling within the areas covered by two 100-kHz sidescan sonar surveys completed during a June 1996 ASTERIAS cruise.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Old Lyme, CT
End Port/Location: Milford, CT
Start Date: 1997-03-08
End Date: 1997-03-14
Equipment Used: DGPS, Van Veen grab sampler, Osprey camera system, 35 mm camera
Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Lawrence Poppe, Brenton B. Taylor
Affiliate Staff:
Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen
Ralph Lewis - LISRC
Notes: This cruise characterized sedimentary environments off Roanoke Point and Falkner Island imaged during a 1996 sidescan cruise. Additional samples were also collected along the shore in the western Sound. 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:
Falkner Island, Connecticut, Roanoke Point, New York, central and western Long Island Sound, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.23479003 | South: 40.95524176 | West: -73.62213135 | East: -72.62924194 |
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.
Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Blackwood, D., Lewis, R.S., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1997, Texture of surficial sediments in eastern Long Island Sound near Falkner Island, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-251, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97251.
Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Blackwood, D., Lewis, R.S., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1997, Texture of surficial sediments in southeastern Long Island Sound off Roanoke Point, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-529, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97529.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Sample log | Van Veen grab sampler | Sample log for Falkner Island, CT, March 8-9, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures. |
| Sample log | Van Veen grab sampler | Sample log for Roanoke Point, NY, March 9-10, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures. |
| Sample log | Van Veen grab sampler | Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 10-13, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | 1997-001-FA-LN-001-01 (Track maps for Falkner Island, CT, Roanoke Point, NY, and western Long Island Sound. ) |
| Van Veen grab sampler | --- | Geology | 1997-001-FA-NL-001-01 (Sample log for Falkner Island, CT, March 8-9, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.) 1997-001-FA-NL-001-02 (Sample log for Roanoke Point, NY, March 9-10, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.) 1997-001-FA-NL-001-03 (Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 10-13, 1997, including sample desciption, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.) |
| Osprey camera system | --- | Photo Video | 1997-001-FA-VD-001-01 (2 DVDs of bottom video (created from 8mm tapes #2 and #3) from Roanoke Point and Falkner Island.) 1997-001-FA-VD-001 (5 Hi-8 Cassette tapes: tapes 1-3 of bottom video from Falkner Island and Roanoke Point, Long Island Sound; tapes 4-5 of bottom video from the western Sound.) |
| 35 mm camera | --- | Photo | 1997-001-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations) |
