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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-322-FA

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Other ID: Sediment Trap Cruise

Status: Pending

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Reconstructing Ocean Circulation & Hydroclimate in the Subtropical Atlantic (GX.23.MN00.U4U15.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Caitlin Reynolds

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect and redeploy sediment trap mooring.

Vehicle(s): Unknown

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, LA

Start Date: 2024-09-22

End Date: 2024-09-26

Equipment Used: Sediment Trap

Information to be Derived: Sediment trap samples (foraminifera assemblage and flux data) CTD cast (pH, fluorescence, salinity, temperature, and oxygen)

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Rosalie Cruikshank

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2022-310-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-322-FA.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2023-339-FA.

Location:

Northern Gulf of Mexico

Boundaries
North: 28.250117 South: 28.230117 West: -89.137993 East: -89.117993

Platform(s):

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Pelican

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Sediment Trap --- Geology

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