Field Activity Details for field activity 2022-027-FA

Other ID: PS23_08

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other), Mapping, Ground-truthing, Predictive Habitat Modeling (DWH Restoration) (LQ00.F92WH)

Principal Investigator(s): Jason Chaytor

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Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multicorer deployments (grain size analyses) and subbottom profiling operations within the impact zone and reference areas in the northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico) in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

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Start Port/Location: Gulfport, MS

End Port/Location: Gulfport, MS

Start Date: 2022-09-05

End Date: 2022-09-27

Equipment Used: Slow corer, Knudsen 3260

Information to be Derived: grain size, sub-seafloor stratigraphy

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: During the two legs of the activity, 56 cores (resulting in 416 bagged sediment samples for WHCMSC) and ~ 690 km of Knudsen 3260 data were collected

Staff: Allyson Boggess

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Northern Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico)

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