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Field Activity Details for field activity 1998-001-FA

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Other ID: CH-98-03

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kathryn Scanlon Catanach

Affiliate Investigator(s): Christopher T. Gledhill, NOAA/NMFS, Pascagoula, MS

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sediment sampling of shelf-edge habitats.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cape Canaveral, FL

End Port/Location: Pascagoula, MS

Start Date: 1998-03-05

End Date: 1998-03-29

Equipment Used: Van Veen grab sampler

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Samples were collected by NOAA personnel for Scanlon.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:
Gary Fitzhugh - NOAA
Panama City
FL; Chris Gledhill - NOAA
Pascagoula
MS; Cliff Harper - NASA
Stennis Space Center
MS

Notes: Note: No USGS participants.
Project = Shelf Edge Habitats, Shelf Edge Habitats

Location:

west Florida Shelf edge, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 29.5 South: 24.5 West: -86 East: -82.5

Platform(s):

photo of Chapman
Chapman

Publications

Briere, P.R., Scanlon, K.M., Gledhill, C.T., Koenig, C.C., and Fitzhugh, G., 1999, West Florida Shelf—Sidescan-sonar and sediment data from shelf-edge habitats in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-589, CD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99589.

Scanlon, K.M., Coleman, Felicia C., and Koenig, Christopher C., 2005, Pockmarks on the outer shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico; gas-release features or habitat modifications by fish?, in Barnes, P.W., and Thomas, J.P., eds., Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing: American Fisheries Society Symposium 41, v. 41.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
1998-001-FA-SC-001 (GRAB samples)

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