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Field Activity Details for field activity 12DCM02

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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): Christina Kellogg

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Christina Kellogg

Data Type(s): Visual Identification: Ground Truthing

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect live coral samples and box cores of sediment for microbiological analysis

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Charleston, SC

End Port/Location: Charleston, SC/Norfolk, VA

Start Date: 2012-08-15

End Date: 2012-09-16

Equipment Used: Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2

Information to be Derived: Microbial community composition

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Christina Kellogg

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Platform: R/V Nancy Foster Equipment: ROV Kraken

Location:

Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons, Mid-Atlantic Bight

Boundaries
North: 40.35282778 South: 36.99934723 West: -75.2727 East: -71.42697114

Platform(s):

photo of Nancy Foster
Nancy Foster

Publications

CSA Ocean Sciences Inc., Ross S., Brooke S., Baird E., Coykendall E., Davies A., Demopoulos A., France S., Kellogg C., Mather R., Mienis F., Morrison C., Prouty N., Roark B., Robertson C., 2017, Exploration and Research of Mid-Atlantic Deepwater Hard Bottom Habitats and Shipwrecks with Emphasis on Canyons and Coral Communities: Atlantic Deepwater Canyons Study: , OCS Study BOEM 2017-060. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Atlantic OCS Region , Sterling, VA, 1000 p. https://espis.boem.gov/final%20reports/5655.pdf.

Goldsmith, D.B., Kellogg, C.A., Morrison, C.L., Gray, M.A., Stone, R.P., Waller, R.G., Brooke, S.D., Ross, S.W., 2018, Comparison of microbiomes of cold-water corals Primnoa pacifica and Primnoa resedaeformis, with possible link between microbiome composition and host genotype: Scientific Reports, Sci Rep, v. 8 no. 1, 12383 p., doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30901-z.

Kellogg, C.A., 2015, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Paramuricea placomus) from Baltimore Canyon: raw and processed data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, httsp://doi.org/10.5066/F7HQ3WZZ.

Kellogg, C.A., 2019, Microbiomes of stony and soft deep-sea corals share rare core bacteria: Microbiome, Microbiome, v. 7 no. 1, 90 p., doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0697-3.

Kellogg, C.A., and Lawler, S.N., 2022, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Anthothela spp.) from Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons: raw and processed data (ver. 2.0, April 2022): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CZ356K.

Kellogg, C.A., Goldsmith, D.B., 2018, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Primnoa spp.) from Gulf of Alaska, Baltimore Canyon, and Norfolk Canyon: Raw data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7P55KMJ.

Kellogg, C.A., Lawler, S.N., 2015, Cold-water coral microbiomes (Anthothela spp.) from Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons: raw and processed data: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7CZ356K.

Kellogg, C.A., Ross, S.W., Brooke, S.D., 2016, Bacterial community diversity of the deep-sea octocoral Paramuricea placomus: PeerJ, v. 4, doi: 10.7717/peerj.2529.

Lawler, S.N., Kellogg, C.A., France, S.C., Clostio, R.W., Brooke, S.D., Ross, S.W., 2016, Coral-associated bacterial diversity is conserved across two deep-sea Anthothela species: Frontiers in Microbiology, v. 7, doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2016.00458.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 --- Experiments (biological)
Surveys (biological)
Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
Single Beam
Ground Truthing
Species ID
Anthothela spp. raw data (Zip file containing raw sequencing data, MIMARKS-compliant sampling and laboratory process metadata for Anthothela spp. collected in Baltimore and Norfolk canyons)
Paramuricea placomus raw data (Zipped file containing raw sequencing data, MIMARKS-compliant sampling and laboratory process metadata for Paramuricea placomus collected in Baltimore Canyon)
Paramuricea placomus processed data (Zip file containing processed data files (QIIME), MIMARKS-compliant sampling and laboratory process metadata for Paramuricea placomus collected in Baltimore Canyon)
Anthothela spp. processed data (Zip file containing processed data files (QIIME), MIMARKS-compliant sampling and laboratory process metadata for Anthothela spp. collected in Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons)

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