Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-649-FA

AKA: none

Other ID: Hawaii abyssal nodules and ecosystems

Status: Pending

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Kira Mizell

Affiliate Investigator(s): Gartman, Amy

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Data Type(s): Imagery: Video, Biological Field Study: Surveys (biological), Visual Identification: Ground Truthing, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Geochemical: Surveys (geochemical), Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Sediment Properties, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Nutrients, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Environmental Data: CTD

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To determine the distribution of abyssal manganese nodules and characterize the environmental setting of the abyssal plains in U.S. waters far offshore Hawaii, including fauna on the nodules, within the sediments, and in the overlying water column.

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Start Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

End Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

Start Date: 2024-09-13

End Date: 2024-10-06

Equipment Used: Nutrient sampler, Sediment trap, sampling equipment, Ground truthing obsvervations, sample, Camera-video, boxcore, RBR Virtuoso, CTD

Information to be Derived: marine mineral presence, marine mineral abundance, marine mineral composition, microbial community composition and diversity, benthic fauna composition and diversity, water column fauna composition and diversity

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Southernmost portion of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, south of the Island of Hawaii.

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