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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-002-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Jason Chaytor

Affiliate Investigator(s): Preston Wilson, UT-ARL Andrew McNeese, UT-ARL

Information Specialist(s): Jason Chaytor

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Seafloor/subseafloor characterization for acoustic modeling studies

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2021-05-22

End Date: 2021-06-05

Equipment Used: Smith-MacIntyre grab

Information to be Derived: Sediment properties, subsurface stratigraphy

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 13 sites visited - samples from each site consist of a mix of short cores, bulk sediment, top water, and sub-sampled intervals

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional details to be added as they become available

Location:

Southern New England shelf and upper slope

Boundaries
North: 40.51714022 South: 39.23225314 West: -71.21337891 East: -69.08203125

Platform(s):

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Connecticut

Publications

Lin, Y., Gawarkiewicz, G., Lavery, A., Siderius, M., Zhang, W.G., Jech, M., Chaytor, J., Siegmann, W., Ozanich, E., Decourcy, B., Loranger, S., Forsyth, J., Johnson, J., Bahr, F., Newhall, A., Correlation between the fluctuations of underwater sound propagation and shelfbreak oceanography: , 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Smith-MacIntyre grab --- Biology
Geology

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