Other ID: 118-12
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): William Schwab
Affiliate Investigator(s): Kenneth Smith - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: CTD
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Study sediment transport processes and the geotechnical behavior of sediment on seamounts.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Honolulu, HI
End Port/Location: Apra Harbor, Guam
Start Date: 1987-02-28
End Date: 1987-04-01
Equipment Used: Push corer (wh), Box corer, Current, Sediment traps, Grab respirometer, CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, Trawl, Amphipod traps
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: ALVIN dives #1806, 1807, 1809, 1810, 1812, and 1814 resulted in biologic and sedimentologic samples and data from 34 stations. Push cores: 19; Box cores: 10; Rock samples: 2; Biologic data.
Staff: William Schwab
Affiliate Staff:
James Hein - USGS-Menlo Park; Kenneth Smith - Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Notes:
Location:
Horizon Guyot, Magellan Rise, Mid-Pacific Mountains, North Pacific;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 19.9 | South: 19.1 | West: -169.1 | East: -168.75 |
Platform(s):
Atlantis II | Alvin |
Schwab, W.C., Hein, J.R., Smith, K.L., Jr., de Moustier, C., Levin, L.A., Genin, A., Wakefield, W. W., and Baldwin, R.J., 1988, Maps showing the Seabeam bathymetry and sedimentologic and biologic sample locations on Horizon Guyot, Mid-Pacific Mountains, and a summary of existing data: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-298, 14 p., URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr88298.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Push corer (wh) | --- | Biology Geology | |
Box corer | --- | Biology Geology | |
Current | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Sediment traps | --- | Geology | |
Grab respirometer | --- | Dissolved Oxygen | |
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl | --- | CTD | |
Trawl | --- | Biology | |
Amphipod traps | --- | Biology |