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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-612-DD

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Data Source Information: Chris German at WHOI (sediment trap), Charles Fisher at Penn State (deep sea corals), Ken Sulak at USGS and Steve Ross (UNCWilmington) (deep sea corals)

Information Specialist(s): Nancy Prouty

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology

Start Date: 2003-11-03

End Date: 2011-10-06

Equipment Used: GPS, Hand-grab sample, Sediment trap

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes: pubs available

Location:

northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 29.18285218 South: 26.07003644 West: -92.48291016 East: -85.63720703

Platform(s):

Publications

Prouty, N.G., Campbell, P.L., Mienis, F., Duineveld, G., Demopoulos, A.W.J., Ross, S.W., and Brooke, S., 2016, Impact of Deepwater Horizon spill on food supply to deep-sea benthos communities: Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, v. 169, pp. 248–264, doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.11.008.

Prouty, N.G., Fisher, C.R., Demopoulos, A.W.J., and Druffel, E.R.M., 2016, Growth rates and ages of deep-sea corals impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, v. 129, pp. 196–212, doi: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2014.10.021.

Prouty, N.G., Roark, E.B., Buster, N.A., and Ross, S.W., 2011, Growth rate and age distribution of deep-sea black corals in the Gulf of Mexico: Marine Ecology Progress Series, v. 423, pp. 101–115.

Prouty, N.G., Roark, E.B., Koenig, A.E., Demopoulos, A.W.J., Batista, F.C., Kocar, B.D., Selby, D., McCarthy, M.D., Mienis, F., and Ross, S.W., 2014, Deep-sea coral record of human impact on watershed quality in the Mississippi River Basin: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, v. 28 no. 1, pp. 29–43, doi: 10.1002/2013gb004754.

Prouty, N.G., Roark, E.B., Mohon, L.M., and Chang, C.-C., 2018, Uptake and distribution of organo-iodine in deep-sea corals: Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, v. 187, pp. 122–132, doi: 10.1016/j.jenvrad.2018.01.003.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Hand-grab sample --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Sediment trap --- Sediment Properties
Geology

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