Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples from Stellwagen Bank during six surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

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Metadata:

Identification_Information
Data_Quality_Information
Spatial_Data_Organization_Information
Distribution_Information
Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Page C. Valentine
Publication_Date: 20220510
Title:

Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples from Stellwagen Bank during six surveys by the U.S. Geological Survey aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019

Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:

Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/P9ERNGJ2

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher:

U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ERNGJ2
Online_Linkage: https://sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/620d4fd8d34e6c7e83ba9ad0
Larger_Work_Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: Page C. Valentine
Originator: VeeAnn A. Cross
Publication_Date: 2022
Title:

Station Information, Seabed and Sample Imagery, and CTD Instrument Data Collected on Stellwagen Bank from May 2016 to April 2019

Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:

Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/P9ERNGJ2

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Other_Citation_Details:

Suggested citation: Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2022, Station information, seabed and sample imagery, and CTD instrument data collected on Stellwagen Bank from May 2016 to April 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ERNGJ2 .

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ERNGJ2
Online_Linkage: https://sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/620d39c1d34e6c7e83ba9a4b

Description:

Abstract:

These data are a part of the effort to map geologic substrates of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts. The overall goal is to develop high-resolution (1:25,000) interpretive maps, based on multibeam sonar data and seabed sampling, showing surficial geology and seabed sediment dynamics. The work was conducted in collaboration with the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, and the data collected will aid research on the ecology of fish and invertebrate species that inhabit the region. The Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk, visited a total of 233 locations on Stellwagen Bank during six separate surveys from May 2016 to April 2019. During these surveys a customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a CTD was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties including temperature, salinity, density, and fluorescence.

Purpose:

These log books provide a record of information recorded in the field.

Supplemental_Information:

Additional information regarding the field activities associated with these data can be obtained from the following locations https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-012-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2016-039-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-027-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-028-FA, https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2018-029-FA, and https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/fan_info.php?fan=2019-007-FA . The grain-size analyses of the sediment samples collected during these field activities is available in a separate publication (Valentine and Cross, 2019; link available from the cross-reference citation).

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 20160518
Ending_Date: 20190430

Currentness_Reference:

Ground condition of when data were collected. These data were collected during six separate surveys, with the following ranges of dates for each survey: field activity 2016-012-FA: 20160518 to 20160520; field activity 2016-039-FA: 20161027; field activity 2018-027-FA: 20180521 to 20180523; field activity 2018-028-FA: 20180718 to 20180720; field activity 2018-029-FA: 20181109 and 20181130; and field activity 2019-007-FA: 20190425 to 20190430.

Status:

Progress: complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned

Spatial_Domain:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.498530
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -70.134620
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.448140
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 42.144990

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program
Theme_Keyword: CMHRP
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: WHCMSC
Theme_Keyword: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Theme_Keyword: NOAA
Theme_Keyword: SEABed Observation and Sampling System
Theme_Keyword: SEABOSS
Theme_Keyword: sea floor samples
Theme_Keyword: sediment samples
Theme_Keyword: ground-truth
Theme_Keyword: stations
Theme_Keyword: log book

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: geoscientificInformation
Theme_Keyword: location

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: field activity logs
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: marine biology
Theme_Keyword: navigational data
Theme_Keyword: field monitoring stations

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: Marine Realms Information Bank (MRIB) keywords
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: marine biology

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:620d4fd8d34e6c7e83ba9ad0

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: North America
Place_Keyword: United States
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts
Place_Keyword: Atlantic Ocean
Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Bank
Place_Keyword: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
Place_Keyword: SBNMS
Place_Keyword: Massachusetts Bay

Access_Constraints: None.
Use_Constraints: Not to be used for navigation.
Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Page C. Valentine

Contact_Position: Research Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2239
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions:

The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the person is no longer with the USGS.

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: D.S. Blackwood
Originator: K.F. Parolski
Publication_Date: 2001
Title: Seabed observation and sampling system
Series_Information:

Series_Name: Sea Technology
Issue_Identification: v. 42, no. 2, p. 39-43

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: P. Valentine
Originator: D. Blackwood
Originator: K. Parolski
Publication_Date: 2000
Title: Seabed observation and sampling system
Series_Information:

Series_Name: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet
Issue_Identification: FS-142-00

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/fs14200
Online_Linkage: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs142-00/

Cross_Reference:

Citation_Information:

Originator: P.C. Valentine
Originator: V.A. Cross
Publication_Date: 2019
Title:

Location and analyses of sediment samples collected on Stellwagen Bank off Boston, Massachusetts from November 5, 2013 to April 30, 2019 on U.S. Geological Survey field activities

Series_Information:

Series_Name: data release
Issue_Identification: DOI:10.5066/P9FWFLPD

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey

Other_Citation_Details:

This publication includes the grain-size analyses of the sediment samples collected on these six field activities as well as 14 other field activities.

Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FWFLPD
Online_Linkage:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/5d95153ee4b0c4f70d10a4f7

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

The latitude and longitude of stations recorded in the log book were later adjusted to match the latitude and longitude recorded at that time in the GPS navigation file.

Logical_Consistency_Report:

These are the log books maintained during data acquisition on six U.S. Geological Survey field activities. The format of the log books themselves changed slightly over time, but similar information was logged at each station during each cruise. The filename of the PDF indicates which activity the log covers. One cruise had two logbooks (2016-012-FA) represented by vol1 and vol2 as part of the filename. All the field activities took place on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary's research vessel, R/V Auk. Although these data represent six separate field activities, the set-up and acquisition on all the cruises is consistent with the exception of the navigation - which was sometimes acquired at 1-second intervals and sometimes at 2-second intervals. The latitude and longitude of stations recorded in the log book were later adjusted to match the latitude and longitude recorded at that time in the GPS navigation file.

Completeness_Report:

The PDF files represent all the acquisition logs maintained on the cruises.

Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:

Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30 GPS receiver) in geographic coordinates (World Geodetic System of 1984 [WGS 84]) with a horizontal accuracy of 10 m. For two cruises (2018-027-FA and 2019-007-FA) the navigation was acquired at one-second intervals. Four cruises (2016-012-FA, 2016-039-FA, 2018-028-FA, and 2018-029-FA) acquired navigation at a two-second interval. The navigation antenna was located 5.3 m forward of the SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) deployment location. This offset was not accounted for in the navigation acquisition, so navigation fixes represent antenna location. The entries in the log book are transcribed manually, so some errors could be associated with that process.

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy:

Vertical_Positional_Accuracy_Report:

Water depth relative to the local sea surface was determined using a Simrad ES60, 120 kHz, single beam echosounder using a dual frequency 120-25 kHz transducer, which detects the seabed to a depth of 800 m. Depth values were rounded to the nearest meter to account for ship motion. The entries in the log books are transcribed manually, so some errors could be associated with that process. The depth is relative to the transducer location, no adjustment was made for tides or transducer depth.

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The log books were maintained during the surveys by the chief scientist. These log books contain notes and information pertaining to the seabed video, CTD data, and sediment sample acquisition. Information includes date and time of acquisition, as well as water depth, latitude, and longitude. Additional information regarding observations from the video such as seabed description and fauna are noted in the log books. The survey data were collected with the SEABOSS. See the cross-references for a description of SEABOSS (Blackwood and Parolski, 2001; Valentine and others, 2000). The latitude and longitude of stations recorded in the log book were later adjusted to match the latitude and longitude recorded at that time in the GPS navigation file.
Data were collected from 2016 to 2019 with the process date representing the most recent acquisition year.

Process_Date: 2019
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: Page C. Valentine

Contact_Position: Research Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (508) 548-8700 x2239
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (508) 457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: pvalentine@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The original bound paper log books were scanned on a Xerox ColorQube 9300 printer/scanner. The scans were saved as a PDF file. All the log books were scanned in 2020, but 2018-028-FA log book had to be rescanned in 2022 after the Julian days and one station location were corrected. The process date is the latest date. This process step and the subsequent process step were performed by the same person.

Process_Date: 2022
Process_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical
Address: 384 Woods Hole Road
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: vatnipp@usgs.gov

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

The PDF were opened in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC version 2021.011.20039 to apply OCR (optical character recognition) to the files so that the documents are more 508 compliant. The following steps were taken to apply OCR: from the Tools menu select Scan and OCR; from the Scan and OCR toolbar, select Enhance - scanned document; select all pages and check Recognize Text; from the settings deselect Apply Adaptive Compression and set the slider to High Quality (without these settings, the quality of the scan is greatly reduced once OCR is complete); remaining settings as default values; and finally clicked the enhance button to process the PDF. Because much of the content is handwritten, the OCR optimization is only partially successful.

Process_Date: 20220223

Spatial_Data_Organization_Information:

Indirect_Spatial_Reference:

The dataset itself is not spatially enabled, but the log books contain recorded positions. These positions are in degrees, decimal minutes. The information is from the GPS system using the WGS84 datum and ellipsoid.

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: Denver Federal Center, Building 810, Mail Stop 302
City: Denver
State_or_Province: CO
Postal_Code: 80225
Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 1-888-275-8747
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: sciencebase@usgs.gov

Resource_Description:

The dataset contains the following seven logbooks from six different surveys: 2016-012-FA_vol1_ocr.pdf, 2016-012-FA_vol2_ocr.pdf, 2016-039-FA_log_ocr.pdf, 2018-027-FA_log_ocr.pdf, 2018-028-FA_log_ocr.pdf, 2018-029-FA_log_ocr.pdf, and 2019-007-FA_log_ocr.pdf. Additionally, the FGDC CSDGM metadata in XML format is included.

Distribution_Liability:

Unless otherwise stated, all data, metadata and related materials are considered to satisfy the quality standards relative to the purpose for which the data were collected. Although these data and associated metadata have been reviewed for accuracy and completeness and approved for release by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), no warranty expressed or implied is made regarding the display or utility of the data for other purposes, nor on all computer systems, nor shall the act of distribution constitute any such warranty.

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Format_Name: Portable Document Format
Format_Information_Content:

The dataset contains seven PDF files and the associated FGDC CSDGM metadata.

Transfer_Size: 50

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/file/get/620d4fd8d34e6c7e83ba9ad0

Network_Resource_Name:

https://www.sciencebase.gov/catalog/item/620d4fd8d34e6c7e83ba9ad0

Network_Resource_Name: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ERNGJ2

Access_Instructions:

The first link is to download all the data in a ZIP file. The second link is to the landing page of the data where individual files can be downloaded. The third link is to the main landing page of the publication.

Fees: none

Technical_Prerequisites:

The user must have software capable of uncompressing the ZIP file and reading a PDF file.

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20220510
Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Person: VeeAnn A. Cross

Contact_Position: Marine Geologist
Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2251
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: whsc_data_contact@usgs.gov
Contact_Instructions:

The metadata contact email address is a generic address in the event the person is no longer with the USGS.

Metadata_Standard_Name: Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

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