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Field Activity Details for field activity 07GCH01

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Osterman, Richard Poore

Affiliate Investigator(s): Pete Swarzenski

Information Specialist(s): Lisa Osterman

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Develop records of past timing and extent of the low-oxygen bottom water events in northern gulf coast

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2007-04-22

End Date: 2007-04-26

Equipment Used: Box Corer, Gravity Corer

Information to be Derived: Faunal, geochemical and isotopic data from sediment cores

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Study is developing faunal, geochemical, and isotopic data to trace history of low-oxygen bottom water events and relate them to climate variability

Staff: Lisa Osterman

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 30.92186216 South: 27.05936069 West: -94.9602 East: -82.98458833

Platform(s):

photo of Pelican
Pelican

Publications

Osterman, L.E., Kelly, W.S., Ricardo, J.P., 2008, Benthic foraminiferal census data from Louisiana continental shelf cores, Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1348, 16 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081348.

Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., Swarzenski, P.W., Senn, D., DiMarco, S., 2009, The 20th-century development and expansion of Louisiana shelf hypoxia, Gulf of Mexico: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 29 no. 6, pp. 405–414, doi: 10.1007/s00367-009-0158-2.

Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., Flower, B.P., Hollander, D.J., 2012, Ecological controls on the shell geochemistry of pink and white Globigerinoides ruber in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for paleoceanographic reconstruction: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 82-83, pp. 28–37, doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2011.10.002.

Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., Flower, B.P., Quinn, T.M., Hollander, D.J., 2009, Regionally coherent Little Ice Age cooling in the Atlantic Warm Pool: Geophysical Research Letters, v. 36, doi:10.1029/2009gl040445 p., doi: 10.1029/2009gl040445.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Box Corer --- Biology
Geology
Gravity Corer --- Geology

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