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Field Activity Details for field activity 2009-043-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): Page Valentine

Affiliate Investigator(s): Mary Carman, WHOI

Information Specialist(s): Dann Blackwood, Page Valentine

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Sampling: Biology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Monitor experiment on the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum at the WHOI dock.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2009-06-03

End Date: 2009-06-03

Equipment Used: Digital camera, Sample containers

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 133 digital photos (jpg format on CD-ROM) of settlement plates with Didemnum vexillum colonies. Collected 2 tissue samples of D. vexillum preserved in formalin. Field notes.

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Page Valentine

Affiliate Staff:
Mary Carman
WHOI

Notes: Project = Benthic Habitats: Geological and Biological Studies, Benthic Habitats: Geological and Biological Studies

Location:

WHOI Dock, Great Harbor, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.52363 South: 41.5236 West: -70.672 East: -70.67193

Platform(s):

photo of WHOI dock
WHOI dock

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Digital camera --- Photo
2009-043-FA-PH-002 (CD ROM disk of TUNICATE SPECIMENS JUN 3 2009, )
Sample containers --- Biology
Geology

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