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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-302-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Climate Variability (GX.19.MN00.E8Z32.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Caitlin Reynolds

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Caitlin Reynolds

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect and redeploy Sediment Trap.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2017-01-31

End Date: 2017-02-03

Equipment Used: Sediment Trap, Rosette

Information to be Derived: Foraminifera Flux

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collect and Redeploy Sediment Trap, CTD cast, water collection, live foraminifera captured for DNA analysis

Staff: Christina Kellogg, Caitlin Reynolds, Julie Richey

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 27.97499795 South: 25.63375911 West: -91.40625 East: -86.93359375

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Sediment Trap --- Geology
Rosette --- Chemistry

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