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Field Activity Details for field activity 1996-025-FA

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Other ID: DIAN9625

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine

Affiliate Investigator(s): Peter Auster, NOAA at UCONN, Avery Pt., Groton, CT

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Acquire sediment samples, video images, and still photos of the sea bed that will be used to interpret sidescan sonar imagery and compile maps of Stellwagen Bank NMS.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Gloucester, MA

End Port/Location: Gloucester, MA

Start Date: 1996-05-16

End Date: 1996-05-23

Equipment Used: ROV, DGPS, Video camera - deep sea, Grab sampler, Camera- deep sea

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Page Valentine, David Piccirilli, Brenton B. Taylor

Affiliate Staff:
Peter Auster and crew

Notes:
Project = Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project, Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project

Location:

Stellwagen Bank region, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.54105184 South: 42.08089743 West: -70.42677202 East: -70.02546886

Platform(s):

photo of Diane G
Diane G

Publications

Valentine, P.C., Baker, J.L., Unger, T.S., Scully, L.A., and Fuller, S.J., 2005, Sea floor image maps showing topography, sun-illuminated topography, backscatter intensity, ruggedness, slope, and the distribution of boulder ridges and bedrock outcrops in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2840, https://doi.org/10.3133/sim2840.

Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2023, Geospatial datasets of seabed topography, sediment mobility, and the distribution of geologic substrates in quadrangle 5 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W9BN3S.

Valentine, P.C., and Gallea, L.B., 2015, Seabed maps showing topography, ruggedness, backscatter intensity, sediment mobility, and the distribution of geologic substrates in quadrangle 6 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3341, 10 sheets, scale 1:25,000, and 21-p. pamphlet, https://doi.org/10.3133/sim3341.

Valentine, P.C., Gallea, L.B., Blackwood, D.S., and Twomey, E.R., 2010, Seabed photographs, sediment texture analyses, and sun-illuminated sea floor topography in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region off Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 469, available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ds469.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ROV --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
DGPS --- Navigation
Video camera - deep sea --- Video
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
1996-025-FA-SC-001 (GRAB samples)
Camera- deep sea --- Photo
1996-025-FA-NL-001 (CD ROM disk of BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD137, BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD140, BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD143, )
1996-025-FA-PH-001 (CD ROM disk of BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD137, BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD140, BOTTOMPHOTO STELL JD143, )

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