| Identifier | 1991-035-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 91-3 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Collaborative research with USGS, NMFS and Bigelow Lab. Sample water column for physical properties, chlorophyll, nutrients, zooplankton and herring larvae; sample sea floor for texture and herring egg beds; echo sounding and high-resolution seismic profiling for bedform and texture distribution; and map egg bed distribution and relationship to bottom environment. | ||||||||
| Location | northern edge of Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Comments | Project = EEZ shelf mapping - eastern Georges Bank, EEZ shelf mapping - eastern Georges Bank | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Page C Valentine | ||||||
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| Affiliate staff | NMFS: Greg Lough, Betsy Broughton, Alex Penkrat; Bigelow Lab: Jeff Brown |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Sampling, Sonar, Location-Elevation |
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| Data type: | CTD, Turbidity, Chemistry, Biology, Geology, Multibeam, Single Beam, Navigation |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, station location and type of sample acquired, maps of station locations. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| SBE 9 CTD | CTD | (no data reported) | |
| Fluorometer | Turbidity | (no data reported) | |
| Niskin bottle | Chemistry | (no data reported) | |
| Plankton nets | Biology | (no data reported) | |
| Dredge | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Simrad EM120 | Multibeam | (no data reported) | |
| ECHOTRAC digital bathymetry system | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| GPS (wh) | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Megapulse Accufix 500 LORAN-C | Navigation | (no data reported) |
