Field Activity 10DCM01

Identifier 10DCM01
Purpose To characterize the microbial community associated with the deep-sea coral Lophelia pertusa
Location Gulf of Mexico
Info derived Bacterial-community species composition, presence of specific functional genes, identification of novel microbial species
Comments Platform: R/V Cape Hatteras and Kraken ROV. OPS: Ron Hall was required for 3 hrs to construct stacks of settling plates.
Platform
Cape Hatteras
Length: 135 feet; Beam: 32 feet.
Itinerary
Start Gulfport, MS 2010-09-20
End St. Petersburg, FL 2010-10-03
Bounds
West -97.6892
East -77.57202983
North 31.10939775
South 21.93623983
Topic 26

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Christina A Kellogg
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Christina A Kellogg
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Visual Identification, Other
Data type: Experiments (biological), Ground Truthing

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Biology, Geology, Single Beam, Ground Truthing, Species ID 3
Settling plates Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological) (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Lophelia_metagenomes_raw_data_1.zip Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 Zip file containing raw data for CK1-CK6, and MIMS sampling metadata Christina A Kellogg
Lophelia_metagenomes_raw_data_2.zip Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 Zip file containing raw data for CK7-CK12, PhiX control, and MIMS sampling metadata. Christina A Kellogg
Lophelia_raw_data.zip Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Kraken 2 Zip file containing raw data and MIMARKS metadata. Christina A Kellogg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity