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Field Activity Details for field activity 2010-015-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): Matt Liebman, EPA; Deb Pacileo, CT DEP

Information Specialist(s): Dann Blackwood, Lawrence Poppe

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Verify multibeam and sidescan sonar datasets in eastern Long Island Sound.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: New London, CT

End Port/Location: New London, CT

Start Date: 2010-05-24

End Date: 2010-05-28

Equipment Used: SeaBOSS, Digital camera, GPS (wh)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Bottom sampling and photography were performed to ground-truth NOAA hydrographic surveys H11997, H11999, and H12012. Nine of the stations were occupied in support of a CT DEP Marine Fisheries project.

Staff: Dann Blackwood

Affiliate Staff:
Marcel Balaval
EPA Jared Balavender
CT DEP Marilyn St. Fleur
EPA Mike Gobell
URI John Gobell
volunteer

Notes: Project = Geology of the State of Connecticut, Geology of the State of Connecticut

Location:

Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 41.3397 South: 41.00685 West: -72.6718 East: -72.09503

Platform(s):

photo of OSV Bold
OSV Bold

Publications

McMullen, K.Y., Poppe, L.J., Danforth, W.W., Blackwood, D.S., Schaer, J.D., Glomb, K.A., and Doran, E.F., 2012, Sea-floor geology of Long Island Sound north of Duck Pond Point, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1149, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111149.

McMullen, K.Y., Poppe, Lawrence J., Ackerman, Seth D., Danforth, William W., Schaer, Jasper D.,, 2012, Sea-Floor Geology in Long Island Sound, Offshore of the North Fork of Long Island, New York [abs.]: , Long Island Sound Research Conference. Stony Brook, NY, November 1-2, 2012.

Poppe, L.J., Ackerman, S.D., McMullen, K.Y., and Schaer, J.D., 2012, Sedimentary environments and processes offshore in eastern Long Island Sound [abs.]: , 2012 AGU Ocean Sciences Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT, February 20-24, 2012.

Poppe, L.J., Danforth, W.W., McMullen, K.Y., Parker, C.E., and Doran, E.F., 2011, Combined multibeam and LIDAR bathymetry data from eastern Long Island Sound and westernmost Block Island Sound-A regional perspective: U. S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1003, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111003.

Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Ackerman, S.D., Blackwood, D.S., Shaer, J.D., Forrest, M.R., Ostapenko, A.J., and Doran, E.F., 2011, Sea-floor geology and topography, offshore in Eastern Long Island Sound: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1150, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101150.

Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Ackerman, S.D., and Glomb, K.A., 2013, Sea-floor geology and topography offshore in northeastern Long Island Sound: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1060, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131060.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2010-015-FA has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology
Digital camera --- Photo
2010-015-FA-PH-002 (Deck photos of field operations)
GPS (wh) --- Navigation

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