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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CEV01

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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): Caitlin Reynolds

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover and redeploy sediment trap for foraminifera assemblages for paleoclimate studies.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually - Silver (GSA)

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2013-02-05

End Date: 2013-02-08

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

Information to be Derived: Foraminifera assemblages

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Christopher Reich, Caitlin Reynolds, Julie Richey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 32.96363064 South: 21.91072279 West: -99.447 East: -76.86890483

Platform(s):

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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., Richey, J.N., 2016, Seasonal flux and assemblage composition of planktic foraminifera from the northern Gulf of Mexico, 2008-14: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2016-1115, 18 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20161115.

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.

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., 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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
Sediment Trap --- Geology

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