Field Activity 1996-024-FA

Identifier 1996-024-FA
Purpose Primarily to collect sediment cores; secondarily, to collect bottom video and sediment grab samples to verify sidescan.
Location Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Due to good weather, 100 cores and 62 grab samples were collected for chemical and lithological analysis.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Marilyn ten Brink, Richard Rendigs, Earl Young, Michael Casso, Peter Gill, Emily Bank, Jane Cookman, Kathy Hall. Project = Long Island Sound Pollution Studies, Long Island Sound Pollution Studies
Platform
Seaward Explorer
Length: 105 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1996-06-17
End Woods Hole, MA 1996-06-24
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -73.3327
East -71.87325
North 41.30933
South 40.93822

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Marilyn ten Brink
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Michael Casso
Scientist, Staff
Banks, Emily
Scientist, Staff
Cookman, Jane
Scientist, Staff
Hall, Kathy
Scientist, Staff
Marilyn ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Peter W. Gill
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Earl Young; Bart Kreulen - Wesleyan U., watchstander; Andy Ouimette - Wesleyan U., watchstander

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 7
Water sampler Chemistry (no data reported)
Video camera - deep sea Video (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology 1
35 mm camera Photo (no data reported)
Grab sampler Biology, Geology 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1996-024-FA-LN-001-01 DGPS JD170 Field Navigation (txt file) June 18, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-02 DGPS JD171 Field Navigation (txt file) June 19, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-03 DGPS JD172 Field Navigation (txt file) June 20, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-04 DGPS JD173 Field Navigation (txt file) June 21, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-05 DGPS JD174 Field Navigation (txt file) June 22, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-06 DGPS JD175 Field Navigation (txt file) June 23, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-LN-001-07 DGPS JD176 Field Navigation (txt file) June 24, 1996 raw GPS navigation file containing 10-second fixes. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-024-FA-SC-001 Gravity corer CORE samples Brian Buczkowski

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
c7tab1_LIS Grab sampler Summary of sample locations and mercury concentrations in samples from Long Island Sound Lawrence J Poppe
lisgrabs Grab sampler Location of surficial samples used in the analysis of metal distributions in Long Island Sound. Ellen Mecray

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity