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Field Activity Details for field activity F0212MC

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AKA: 12DCM02,

Other ID: 12DCM02, F-02-12-MC

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kira Arias-La Rheir

Affiliate Investigator(s): Christina Kellogg

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect live coral samples and box cores of sediment for microbiological analysis

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Charleston, SC

End Port/Location: Norfolk, VA

Start Date: 2012-08-15

End Date: 2012-09-16

Equipment Used: boxcore, boxcore, instrumentmooring, coral_core

Information to be Derived: Microbial community composition

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Nancy Prouty

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: changed FAN to F0212MC 10/18/2018
field metadata added from InfoBank 7/13/2017;
data exists on FAD

Location:

Baltimore and Norfolk Canyons, Mid-Atlantic Bight

Boundaries
North: 39.25777815 South: 32.02892656 West: -78.75 East: -73.3984375

Platform(s):

photo of Nancy Foster
Nancy Foster

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
instrumentmooring --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
coral_core --- Biology

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