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Field Activity Details for field activity 2004-019-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bradford Butman

Affiliate Investigator(s): Seth Ackerman, MA CZM

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Visual Identification: Species ID

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Bottom sampling, video and photography for ground truthing multibeam bathymetric data.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Hull, MA

End Port/Location: Hull, MA

Start Date: 2004-09-13

End Date: 2004-09-17

Equipment Used: SeaBOSS, Digital camera

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Seth Ackerman, Brian Andrews, Dann Blackwood, David Foster

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Mini-SEABOSS - Dann Blackwood, Seth Ackerman, Brian Andrews; Captain - Dave Foster.
Project = Boston Harbor Sea Floor Mapping, Boston Harbor Sea Floor Mapping

Location:

Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 42.44167 South: 42.26667 West: -71.05 East: -70.81667

Platform(s):

photo of Rafael
Rafael

Publications

Ackerman, S.D., Butman, B., Barnhardt, W.A., Danforth,, W.W., and Crocker, J.M., 2006, High-resolution geologic mapping of the inner continental shelf-Boston Harbor and approaches, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2006-1008, DVD-ROM. Also available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20061008.

Pendleton, E.A., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Ackerman, S.D., Foster, D.S., Andrews, B.D., and Schwab, W.C., 2013, Shallow geology, seafloor texture, and physiographic zones of the Inner Continental Shelf from Nahant to northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1157, 53 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121157.

Pendleton, E.A., Barnhardt, W.A., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., Schwab, W.C., Andrews, B.D., and Ackerman, S.D., 2015, Sea-floor texture and physiographic zones of the inner continental shelf from Salisbury to Nahant, Massachusetts, including the Merrimack Embayment and Western Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1153, 36 p., 1 appendix, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151153.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2004-019-FA has data viewable in the CMGP Video and Photograph Portal. View the data in this application here. See the instructions for working with this application.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology
2004-019-FA-SC-001 (grab samples)
Digital camera --- Photo
2004-019-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations)

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