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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-335-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): Julie Richey

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 Sediment Trap.

Vehicle(s): Unknown, White Dodge Pickup - White

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2018-07-08

End Date: 2018-07-11

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

Information to be Derived: Foraminifera Flux

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sediment trap material from the 21-cup trap and the 13-cup trap. McLane Water Pumping filters, CTD casts. Work completed at the Sediment Trap location as well as the dead zone to collect water samples.

Staff: 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):

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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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Rosette --- Chemistry
No data was collected
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe --- CTD
Sediment Trap --- Geology

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