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Field Activity Details for field activity 2016-320-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Caitlin Reynolds

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Caitlin Reynolds

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect and redeploy an ongoing sediment trap. Also take a CTD cast.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2016-05-05

End Date: 2016-05-08

Equipment Used: Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe, Sediment Trap, Rosette

Information to be Derived: Sediment Trap foraminifera flux

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected and Redeployed Sediment Trap, CTD Cast, Plankton Tow, McLane water pumping

Staff: Caitlin Reynolds, Julie Richey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 28.63636279 South: 27.8044308 West: -90.7581 East: -89.61873372

Platform(s):

photo of Pelican
Pelican

Publications

Reynolds, C.E., Richey, J.N., Fehrenbacher, J.S., Davis, C.V., and Spero, H.J., 2022, Globorotalia truncatulinoides trace element geochemistry (barium, magnesium, strontium, manganese, and calcium) from the Gulf of Mexico sediment trap: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YQMIH5.

Richey, J.N., Fehrenbacher, J.S., Reynolds, C.E., Davis, C.V., Spero, H.J., 2022, Barium enrichment in the non-spinose planktic foraminifer, Globorotalia truncatulinoides: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 333, pp. 184–199, doi: 10.1016/j.gca.2022.07.006.

Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, K., Khider, D., Reynolds, C.E., Partin, J.W., Quinn, T.M., 2019, Considerations for Globigerinoides ruber (White and Pink) Paleoceanography: Comprehensive Insights From a LongâRunning Sediment Trap: Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology, v. 34 no. 3, pp. 353–373, doi: 10.1029/2018PA003417.

Richey, J.N., Thirumalai, T., Khider, D., Reynolds, C.E., Partin, J., Quinn, T.M., 2019, Globigerinoides ruber sediment trap data in the Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9KK7UD6.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
Sediment Trap --- Geology
Rosette --- Chemistry

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