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Field Activity Details for field activity 1995-002-FA

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Other ID: JD95-2

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Ralph Lewis - CT DEP; Roman Zajac - UNH

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom photography and sedimentological geochemical and biological sampling to define sedimentary environments and benthic habitats in areas previously sidescanned.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Old Lyme, CT

End Port/Location: Old Lyme, CT

Start Date: 1995-08-23

End Date: 1995-08-29

Equipment Used: DGPS, Van Veen grab sampler, Osprey camera system

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Staff:
R. Lewis
M. Cohen - CT-DEP; D. Toderlund - USCG; R. Zajac
S. Wilson
D. Selger
R. Reuben
C. Dodson
J. Howald
J. Athey
A. Gallop - UNH

Notes: Cruise will characterize summer benthic communities/textural distributions; duplicate comparative cruise DEMP 95001 in April will characterize spring conditions. Original Center People field contained: L. Larry Poppe - Ch. Sci., D. Dann Blackwood - Photog.
Project = CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies, CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies

Location:

Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 41.25145 South: 41.01244 West: -73.3286 East: -72.55213

Platform(s):

photo of Dempsey
Dempsey

Publications

Poppe, L.J., Polloni, C., eds., 1998, Long Island Sound environmental studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (98-502), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98502.

Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Blackwood, D., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Texture of surficial sediments in central Long Island Sound off Milford, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-014, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr9614.

Poppe, L.J., Taylor, B.B., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Blackwood, D., Harmon, A.E., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Texture of surficial sediments in western Long Island Sound off the Norwalk Islands, Connecticut: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-008, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr968.

Poppe, L.J., Zajac, R.N., Lewis, R.S., Mlodzinska, Z.J., Pratt, S.E., Taylor, B.B., and DiGiacomo-Cohen, M.L., 1996, Organic carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen concentrations in surficial sediments from western Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 96-708, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr96708.

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, sample locations, maps of sample locations.
Sample log Van Veen grab sampler Field log describing video camera, still camera and Van Veen sample data collection, Norwalk, CT, August 24-26, 1995.
Sample log Van Veen grab sampler Field log describing video camera, still camera and Van Veen sample data collection, Milford, CT, August 27-28, 1995.
Sample log Van Veen grab sampler Field log describing video camera, still camera and Van Veen sample data collection, Hammonasset, CT, August 29, 1995.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
1995-002-FA-LN-001 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV DGPS MARK, NAV DGPS MARK, NAV DGPS MARK, NAV DGPS MARK, NAV DGPS MARK, )
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
1995-002-FA-SC-001 (GRAB samples)
Osprey camera system --- Photo
Video

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