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Field Activity Details for field activity 2010-081-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): Page Valentine

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

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: 2010-09-02

End Date: 2010-09-02

Equipment Used: Camera- deep sea, Grab sampler

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Notes/logs, 2 pages. Took 104 digital photos in JPEG format of Didemnum vexillum on 26 settlement plates on 2 strings extending from MLLW to 10 m below MLLW. Took 11 JPEG photos of 3-meter milk crate with D. vexillum colonies. Took 2 tissue samples of D. vexillum from milk crate and preserved them in formalin.

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Page Valentine

Affiliate Staff:

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

Location:

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
Camera- deep sea --- Photo
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology

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