AKA: none
Other ID: Escanaba 2022; TN-403
Status: Pending
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): Amy Gartman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Amanda Demopoulos (USGS); Nancy Prouty (USGS); Kiana Frank (University of Hawaii); Isobel Yeo (Southampton); John Jamieson (Memorial University); Joe Resing (NOAA)
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: ORP, Environmental Data: CTD, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Multibeam, Imagery: Video, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Sampling: Geology, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry
Scientific Purpose/Goals: We will be studying the Escanaba Trough to characterize the sulfide minerals and hydrothermal fluids in Escanaba Trough in order to investigate the continuity of both through time; to characterize the ecosystem, including microbes and megafauna inhabiting the trough; and to explore interactions between marine life, the metal sulfide deposits, and the hydrothermal and oceanic environment enveloping both. We will also be doing AUV based mapping.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Newport, OR
End Port/Location: Newport, OR
Start Date: 2022-05-24
End Date: 2022-06-13
Equipment Used: Push corer, Hand-grab sample, Gravity Core, High Temperature Major Samplers, High Temperature Gas Tight Samplers, Magnetometer, Camera-video, Side-scan sonar, CTD - FSI, niskinbottle, PMEL MAPR
Information to be Derived: Mineral distribution; metal sulfide geochemistry; species distribution; microbiology distribution; water column chemistry; hydrothermal fluid chemistry; sediment geochemistry; organic geochemistry
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 20 days at sea on R/V Thompson using ROV Jason, AUV Sentry, gravity coring, and CTD casts
Staff:
Affiliate Staff:
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Location:
Escanaba Trough; Southern Gorda Ridge; US EEZ; Offshore CA
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.15 | South: 40.2 | West: -127.53 | East: -127.35 |
Platform(s):
 ROV Jason |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push corer | --- | Surveys (geochemical) Surveys (biological) Biology Geology | |
| Hand-grab sample | --- | Biology Chemistry Geology | |
| Gravity Core | --- | Geology | |
| High Temperature Major Samplers | --- | Chemistry | |
| High Temperature Gas Tight Samplers | --- | Chemistry | |
| Magnetometer | --- | Magnetics | |
| Camera-video | --- | Photo Video | |
| Side-scan sonar | --- | Sidescan | |
| CTD - FSI | --- | CTD Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| niskinbottle | --- | Chemistry | |
| PMEL MAPR | --- | ORP |
