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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-017-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): National Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Habitat Studies: Atlantic (LQ000FO)

Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine

Affiliate Investigator(s): Dr. David Wylie, SBNMS

Information Specialist(s): Seth Ackerman

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect seabed sediment samples for geological mapping project

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Scituate, MA

End Port/Location: Scituate, MA

Start Date: 2021-07-30

End Date: 2021-08-06

Equipment Used: Furuno satellite compass SC-30, Nikon 7100 digital camera, SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD, GoPro camera, SeaBOSS

Information to be Derived: Sediment samples for geological mapping

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Visited locations within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. A customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) instrument was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties.

Staff: Laura Brothers, Patrick Berube

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Travel to and from Scituate, MA for day-cruises to Stellwagen Bank.

CTD required as for previous cruises.

Load Auk in Scituate, MA on Friday, July 30, 2021.

Location:

Stellwagen Bank NMS

Boundaries
North: 42.46500587 South: 42.30530166 West: -70.58456413 East: -70.13107303

Platform(s):

photo of Auk
Auk

Publications

Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2023, Sea-floor sediment samples, seabed and sample imagery, and CTD instrument data collected on Stellwagen Bank from September 2020 to August 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9G7QARQ.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise log volume 1 (document not focused on specific equipment) Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank - volume 1 of 2.
Cruise log volume 2 (document not focused on specific equipment) Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank - volume 2 of 2.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Furuno satellite compass SC-30 --- Navigation
Nikon 7100 digital camera --- Photo
SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD --- CTD
Fluorescence
Turbidity
GoPro camera --- Photo
Video
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology

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