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Field Activity Details for field activity 2005-304-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lisa Osterman

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jack Kindinger, Christopher Reich

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment samples in the Louisiana Shelf region

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Louisiana

End Port/Location: Louisiana

Start Date: 2005-05-10

End Date: 2005-05-14

Equipment Used: Box Corer, Gravity Corer

Information to be Derived: faunal assemblage, and geochronology

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected box cores and gravity cores

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: This field activity number was assigned retroactively

Location:

Louisiana Shelf - Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 28.9319 South: 28.2791 West: -90.9112 East: -89.8961

Platform(s):

photo of Pelican
Pelican

Publications

Osterman, L.E., Campbell, P.L., Swarzenski, P.W., Ricardo, J.P., 2007, Biological, physical, and geochemical data from Gulf of Mexico gravity and box core MRD05-04: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007-1024, 18 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071024.

Osterman, L.E., Kelly, W.S., Ricardo, J.P., 2008, Benthic foraminiferal census data from Louisiana continental shelf cores, Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1348, 16 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081348.

Osterman, L.E., Poore, R.Z., Swarzenski, P.W., Senn, D., DiMarco, S., 2009, The 20th-century development and expansion of Louisiana shelf hypoxia, Gulf of Mexico: Geo-Marine Letters, v. 29 no. 6, pp. 405–414, doi: 10.1007/s00367-009-0158-2.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Box Corer --- Biology
Geology
Gravity Corer --- Geology

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