Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine
Affiliate Investigator(s): Bob Reid, NOAA Fisheries
Information Specialist(s): Page Valentine
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Seabed habitat mapping: mapping of distribution of invasive tunicate, Didemnum sp.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2006-08-22
End Date: 2006-09-01
Equipment Used: Trawl, Dredge, CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, SeaBOSS, Digital camera
Information to be Derived: Habitat maps;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Activities included video/photo drifts with SEABOSS for habitat and fauna description; CTD casts, otter trawling, and dredging for biological samples.
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Jennifer Bonin, Page Valentine
Affiliate Staff:
Jeremy Collie
GSO/URI
and graduate students
Notes: Mobilization will begin on Friday, Aug. 18.
Project = National Benthic Habitats Studies - Atlantic, National Benthic Habitats Studies - Atlantic
Location:
Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Boundaries | |||
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North: 42.11667 | South: 41.78333 | West: -67.5333 | East: -66.46667 |
Platform(s):
Delaware II |
Lengyel, N.L., Collie, Jeremy S., and Valentine, Page C., 2009, The invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum on Georges Bank - ecological effects and genetic identification: Aquatic Invasions, v. 4 no. 1, URL: http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2009/AI_2009_4_1_Lengyel_etal.pdf.
Valentine, P.C., Carman, Mary R., Dijksta, Jennifer, and Blackwood, Dann S., 2009, Larval recruitment of the invasive colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum, seasonal water temperatures in New England coastal and offshore waters, and implications for spread of the species: Aquatic Invasions, v. 4 no. 1, URL: http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2009/AI_2009_4_1_Valentine_etal.pdf.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Trawl | --- | Biology | |
Dredge | --- | Biology Geology | |
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl | --- | CTD | |
SeaBOSS | --- | Surveys (biological) Experiments (biological) Species ID Photo Video Geology Biology | |
Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2006-002-FA-PH-002 (Deck photos of field activity operations.) |