AKA: none
Other ID: 2019-001-FA
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Gas Hydrates (MU113)
Principal Investigator(s): Nancy Prouty
Affiliate Investigator(s): Nancy Prouty (PCMSC); Amanda Demopoulos (WARC, Gainesville); Carolyn Ruppel (WH); Tamara Baumberger (PMEL-NOAA); Jens Greubert (GEOMAR), Howard Mendlovitz (UNC)
Information Specialist(s): Other
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: ROV and geophysical studies of methane seepage on the Cascadia margin
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: San Francisco, CA
End Port/Location: Astoria, OR
Start Date: 2019-06-12
End Date: 2019-07-02
Equipment Used: CTD - FSI, GPS, Other
Information to be Derived: seafloor maps, methane flux, methane oxidation rate, chemosynthetic habitats
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: location of seeps (EK60), seafloor maps (MB), gas composition, age and geochemistry of carbonates, and chemosynthetic food web composition
Staff: Nancy Prouty
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-001-FA
Project: USGS GAS HYDRATES (LQ000FP). This was a competitively chosen project for which Schmidt Ocean Institute is providing about $1 million in shiptime on the global class R/V Falkor. We are responsible for travel, shipping, other science, overtime, etc.
Location:
U.S. Cascadia (Pacific Northwest) margin, offshore Washington and Oregon
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 48.21672332 | South: 41.85895216 | West: -127.24854111 | East: -124.58936142 |
Platform(s):
Other |
Prouty, N.G., 2023, Geochemistry of authigenic carbonates from Cascadia Margin: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9J10NH5.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| CTD - FSI | --- | CTD Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
