Field Activity Details for field activity 1999-056-FA

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Marilyn ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s): Johan Varekamp, Wesleyan University

Information Specialist(s): Ellen Mecray, Nancy K. Soderberg

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect grab samples to be used for toxicity tests: 3 grabs per station, 30 stations transiting the Sound from east to west in a zig zag pattern to achieve both along-axis and cross-axis samples. Collaborating scientists from Wesleyan University will also be aboard to sample 10 stations for bottom water and foram samples in sediments.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Groton, CT

End Port/Location: Groton, CT

Start Date: 1999-11-08

End Date: 1999-11-11

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Samples covered most of Long Island Sound.

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Erin Galvin, Ellen Mecray, Joseph S. Newell, Sunita Shah, Marilyn ten Brink

Affiliate Staff:
Wesleyan person - bottom samples and grabs; Joop Varekamp - Assoc. Chief Sci.; Taras Gapotchenko and Joshoa Koch
assistants

Notes: Latitude coordinates are not entered here. Original Center People field contained: Marilyn ten Brink - Chief Scientist; Ellen Mecray, Sunita Shah - deck ops, Erin Galvin - deck ops and mob, Dann Blackwood - video on grab, Joe Newell - mob and transport gear to/from Groton.
Project = Long Island Sound Environmental studies: Geochemistry, Long Island Sound Environmental studies: Geochemistry

Location:

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

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