Field Activity 1981-025-FA

Identifier 1981-025-FA
Purpose Revisit permanent monitoring stations established July - August 1980 on Georges Bank in Lydonia Canyon. Establish 2 new stations in Oceanographer Canyon. Conduct photographic surveys for qualitative and quantitative analysis of megafauna. Collect faunal and substrate samples for pollutant analysis. Collect substrate samples to define infaunal populations and for sediment size analysis.
Location Georges Bank and canyons, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary JSL Dives 1048-1062 and 1065-1068. Bottom samples: 84; film/video.
Comments Project = Georges Bank and submarine canyon baseline and monitoring studies on oil and gas exploration areas, Georges Bank and submarine canyon baseline and monitoring studies on oil and gas exploration areas
Platform
Johnson
Length 123 feet, beam 26 feet.
Johnson Sea-link
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1981-07-10
End (port not specified) 1981-07-21
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -67.80550169
East -67.41819769
North 40.74355742
South 40.49639491

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Page C Valentine
Crew members
Page C Valentine
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal R.A. Cooper - National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Affiliate staff NMFS: R.A. Cooper - Chief Scientist, J.R. Uzman, Kenneth Pierce, Andrew Shepard, Roger Clifford; University of New Hampshire: Alan Hulbert

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Sampling, Location-Elevation
Data type: Photo, Video, Biology, Geology, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, and station information including location, dive#, water depth, data types collected

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Camera- deep sea Photo (no data reported)
Video camera - deep sea Video (no data reported)
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology 1
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1981-025-FA-SC-001 Push corer (wh) SUBMERSIBLE SAMPLE samples Brian Buczkowski

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity