Other ID: Hudson Cruise 2003-054
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine
Affiliate Investigator(s): Brian Todd, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Video, Imagery: Photo, Sonar: Single Beam, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Ground truthing multibeam map imagery for the purpose of constructing geologic maps of German Bank.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
End Port/Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Start Date: 2003-09-07
End Date: 2003-09-21
Equipment Used: Grab sampler, Video camera - deep sea, Camera- deep sea, Sidescan sonar, Echosounder, Anamorphic camera, GPS (wh)
Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Habitat maps; Sea floor map;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Contact Chief Scientist, Brian Todd, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, for post cruise report: Hudson 2003-054.
Staff: Page Valentine
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Contact Chief Scientist, Brian Todd, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, for post cruise report: Hudson 2003-054. Original Center People field contained: Page Valentine, Observer.
Information from Foghorn: Page served as an observer on this cruise sponsored by the Canadian Government. The only data obtained by WHSC were 2 samples. All other data kept by Brian Todd, Geological Survey of Canada, Bedford Institute, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Location:
German Bank, Gulf of Maine, Canada, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 43.68333 | South: 43 | West: -66.7667 | East: -65.83333 |
Platform(s):
Hudson |
Todd, B.J., and Valentine, P.C., 2010, Shaded seafloor relief, backscatter strength, and surficial geology; German Bank, Scotian Shelf, offshore Nova Scotia: Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6124, sheet 1, Shaded seafloor relief, scale 1:100,000, URL: http://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/023eeeb9-9cf1-5281-bd97-59dca5a476b0.
Todd, B.J., and Valentine, P.C., 2010, Shaded seafloor relief, backscatter strength, and surficial geology; German Bank, Scotian Shelf, offshore Nova Scotia: Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6124, sheet 2, Shaded seafloor relief, scale 1:100,000, URL: http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/downloade.web&search1=R=261833.
Todd, B.J., and Valentine, P.C., 2010, Shaded seafloor relief, backscatter strength, and surficial geology; German Bank, Scotian Shelf, offshore Nova Scotia: Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 6124, sheet 3, Shaded seafloor relief, scale 1:100,000, URL: http://geoscan.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/downloade.web&search1=R=261833.
Todd, B.J., Valentine, Page C., Longva, Oddvar, and Shaw, John, 2007, Glacial landforms on German Bank, Scotian Shelf; evidence for Late Wisconsinan ice-sheet dynamics and implications for the formation of De Geer moraines: Boreas, v. 36 no. 2, doi: 10.1080/03009480600992050.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Grab sampler | --- | Biology Geology | 2003-055-FA-SC-001 (2 IKU grab samples: IKU79 and IKU104) |
Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | |
Sidescan sonar | --- | Sidescan | |
Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | |
Anamorphic camera | --- | Photo | |
GPS (wh) | --- | Navigation |