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Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-651-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Pending

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

Funding Program(s): Global Marine Mineral Resources ()

Principal Investigator(s): Amy Gartman

Affiliate Investigator(s): Roxanne Beinart (URI) and Jill McDermott (Lehigh)

Information Specialist(s): Amy Gartman

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect hydrothermal geochemical data including push cores and hydrothermal minerals

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Balboa, Panama

End Port/Location: Puerto Ayora, Ecuador

Start Date: 2023-08-12

End Date: 2023-09-10

Equipment Used: grab sampler, push cores

Information to be Derived: Mineralogy, geochemical composition, grain size, total organic and inorganic carbon

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Katlin Adamczyk, Jaycee Favela

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: I am the primary investigator for USGS and the geochemical (rock/push core characterization) section of this project; Roxanne Beinart (URI) and Jill McDermott (Lehigh) are the primary investigators for the project.

Location:

Western Galapagos Spreading Center

Boundaries
North: 2.6 South: -0.747 West: -94.775 East: -90.31

Platform(s):

photo of Falkor (too)
Falkor (too)

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
grab sampler --- Surveys (geochemical)
Geology
push cores --- Geology

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