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Field Activity Details for field activity 08CEV04

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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): Richard Poore, Kathy Tedesco

Affiliate Investigator(s): Terry Quinn

Information Specialist(s): Kathy Tedesco

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Calibrate sediment proxies during a sediment trap experiment to reconstruct Holocene climate variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cocordrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocordrie, LA

Start Date: 2008-10-24

End Date: 2008-10-26

Equipment Used: Rosette, Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe, Box Corer, Sediment Trap

Information to be Derived: Faunal, geochemical and isotopic data from sediment trap and sediment core samples, geochemical analysis of seawater

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: This project seeks to reconstruct Holocene climate variability in the northern Gulf of Mexico by calibrating faunal, isotopic and geochemical proxy records from deep-sea sediments using sediment trap material and concurrent hydrographic and climatological measurements

Staff: T Hickey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment: Multicorer.

Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 30.80450457 South: 28.3413886 West: -93.1584 East: -83.64376935

Platform(s):

photo of Pelican
Pelican

Publications

Poore, R.Z., Spear, J.W., Tedesco, K.A., 2013, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifers from a sediment-trap study in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Journal of Coastal Research, no. Special Issue 63, pp. 6–19, doi: 10.2112/Si63-002.1.

Reynolds, C.E., Poore, R.Z., 2013, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-11: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1158, 11 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131158.

Reynolds, C.E., Richey, J.N., Fehrenbacher, J.S., Davis, C.V., and Spero, H.J., 2022, Globorotalia truncatulinoides trace element geochemistry (barium, magnesium, strontium, manganese, and calcium) from the Gulf of Mexico sediment trap: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YQMIH5.

Reynolds, C.E., Richey, J.N., Fehrenbacher, J.S., Rosenheim, B.E., Spero, H.J., 2018, Environmental controls on the geochemistry of Globorotalia truncatulinoides in the Gulf of Mexico: Implications for paleoceanographic reconstructions: Marine Micropaleontology, Marine Micropaleontology, v. 142, pp. 92–104, doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2018.05.006.

Reynolds, C.E., Richey, J.N., Poore, R.Z., 2013, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-12: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1243, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131243.

Richey, J.N., Fehrenbacher, J.S., Reynolds, C.E., Davis, C.V., Spero, H.J., 2022, Barium enrichment in the non-spinose planktic foraminifer, Globorotalia truncatulinoides: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 333, pp. 184–199, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.07.006.

Richey, J.N., Reynolds, C.E., Tappa, E., Thunell, R., 2014, Weekly resolution particulate flux from a sediment trap in the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-2012: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1035, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141035.

Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, K., Khider, D., Reynolds, C.E., Partin, J.W., Quinn, T.M., 2019, Considerations for Globigerinoides ruber (White and Pink) Paleoceanography: Comprehensive Insights From a LongâRunning Sediment Trap: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 34 no. 3, pp. 353–373, doi: 10.1029/2018PA003417.

Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, T., Khider, D., Reynolds, C.E., Partin, J., Quinn, T.M., 2019, Globigerinoides ruber sediment trap data in the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KK7UD6.

Spear, J.W., Poore, R.Z., 2011, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-2009: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1002, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111002.

Spear, J.W., Poore, R.Z., Quinn, T.M., 2011, Globorotalia truncatulinoides (dextral) Mg/Ca as a proxy for Gulf of Mexico winter mixed-layer temperature: Evidence from a sediment trap in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Marine Micropaleontology, v. 80, pp. 53–61, doi: 10.1016/j.marmicro.2011.05.001.

Spear, J.W., Reynolds, C.E., Poore, R.Z., 2011, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1215, 19 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111215.

Tedesco, K.A., Spear, J.W., Tappa, E.J., Poore, R.Z., 2009, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the Northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2009-1293, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091293.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Rosette --- Chemistry
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
08CEV04-SA-pd-7 (Temperature and salinity depth profiles at the trap site during 2008)
08CEV04-SA-pd-8 (Comparison of in situ and satellite-derived temperature data)
Box Corer --- Biology
Geology
Sediment Trap --- Geology
08CEV04-SA-pd-1 (Planktic foraminiferal flux and percent contribution table)
08CEV04-SA-pd-2 (Figure showing average daily flux of 7-14 day-long sampling intervals of planktic foraminifers and 10 most abundant species/groups)
08CEV04-SA-pd-3 (Figure showing weekly percent abundance of 10 most common species/ groups of planktic foraminifers)
08CEV04-SA-pd-4 ( Average daily fluxes of total mass, Organic Carbon (orgC), Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3), Opal, Terrinegous (Terrig), and Nitrogen (Nitro))

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