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Field Activity Details for field activity 11CEV03

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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

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): T Hickey, Caitlin Reynolds

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To recover and redeploy sediment trap.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2011-08-11

End Date: 2011-08-16

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

Information to be Derived: SST and salinity from CTD surface to ocean floor, Forams trapped in sediment trap.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: collected 21 cups on the sediment trap.

Staff: T Hickey, Caitlin Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico (27.5N, 90.3W)

Boundaries
North: 32.04120404 South: 27.35389576 West: -96.9861 East: -82.49390483

Platform(s):

photo of Pelican
Pelican

Publications

Jonkers, L., Reynolds, C.E., Richey, J.N., Hall, I.R., 2015, Lunar periodicity in the shell flux of planktonic foraminifera in the Gulf of Mexico: Biogeosciences, v. 12, pp. 3061–3070, doi: 10.5194/bg-12-3061-2015.

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., Rosenheim, B.E., Spero, H.J., 2018, Globorotalia truncatulinoides sediment trap data in the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F72806W4.

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.

Richey, J.N., Tierney, J.E., 2016, GDGT and Alkenone flux in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F76M350W.

Richey, J.N., Tierney, J.E., 2016, GDGT and alkenone flux in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for the TEX86 and UKâ37 paleothermometers: Paleoceanography, v. 31 no. 12, pp. 1547–1561, doi: 10.1002/2016pa003032.

Thirumalai, K., Richey, J.N., Quinn, T.M., Poore, R.Z., 2014, Globigerinoides ruber morphotypes in the Gulf of Mexico: A test of null hypothesis: Scientific Reports, v. 4, doi: 10.1038/srep06018.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
11CEV03-SA-pd-6 (Salinity depth profiles of World Ocean Atlas 2009 climatology and CTD casts for sediment trap collected in situ)
11CEV03-SA-pd-5 (Temperature depth profiles of World Ocean Atlas 2009 climatology and CTD casts for sediment trap collected in situ)
Sediment Trap --- Geology
11CEV03-SA-pd-1 (Planktic foraminiferal flux and percent contribution table)
11CEV03-SA-pd-2 (Figure showing average daily flux of 7-14 day-long sampling intervals of planktic foraminifers and 10 most abundant species/groups)
11CEV03-SA-pd-3 (Figure showing weekly percent abundance of 10 most common species/ groups of planktic foraminifers)
11CEV03-SA-pd-4 ( Average daily fluxes of total mass, Organic Carbon (orgC), Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3))

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