1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2004-010-FA

Identifier 2004-010-FA
Alternate names FSTR0401
Purpose Habitat studies and mapping.
Location Stellwagen Bank, Gulf of Maine, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary 37 video/photo transects; 12 invertebrate biology samples; 6 grain-size analysis samples.
Info derived Grain size analysis; Habitat maps; Benthic invertebrate analysis;
Comments UPDATED June 9, 2004: Mobe at WHOI on Sunday, June 20. Demobe at WHOI on Saturday morning, June 26. Original Center People field contained: Page Valentine, Dann Blackwood, Sarah Fuller, Chuck Worley (for mobe and demobe). Project = SBNMS Habitat Mapping, SBNMS Habitat Mapping Information from Foghorn: center equipment Navigation - P-code; SEABOSS; Smith-Macintyre grab, U. Maine
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Platform
Nancy Foster
Length 187 feet; beam 40 feet; draft 12.8 feet.
Itinerary
Start WHOI, Woods Hole, MA 2004-06-20
End WHOI, Woods Hole, MA 2004-06-26
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -70.65730303
East -70.11759009
North 42.6282995
South 42.18873138

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
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Fuller, Sarah
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Page C Valentine
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal James Lindholm, SBNMS
Affiliate staff Kari Heinonen, UCONN, biologist; Betsy Grannis, U. Maine, biologist

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Visual Identification
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Species ID

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 9
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
P-code GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Digital camera Photo 1
Smith-MacIntyre grab Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2004-010-FA-PH-001 SeaBOSS CD ROM disk of BOTTOM PHOTO STELL Nancy K. Soderberg
2004-010-FA-SC-001 SeaBOSS grab samples Brian Buczkowski
2004-010-FA-PH-002 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations Dann S Blackwood

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Stellwagen_sedimentsamples SeaBOSS Geographic locations of seabed sediment samples from the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region. Includes sediment analyses. Page C Valentine
ridges0_SIM2840 SeaBOSS Boulder ridges less than 1 m high on the sea floor of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. The boulder ridges were identified using multibeam topographic imagery and backscatter intensity of the seabed and video and photographic images collected from 1994 to 2003. Page C Valentine
ridges1_SIM2840 SeaBOSS Boulder ridges greater than or equal to 1 m high on the sea floor of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine region. The boulder ridges were identified using multibeam topographic imagery and backscatter intensity of the seabed and video and photographic images collected from 1994 to 2003. Page C Valentine
sbnmsallsta_SIM2840 SeaBOSS Sample and video stations located in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. Stations represent the location of a sediment sample and/or the end of a video transect. Page C Valentine
sbnmsallvid_SIM2840 SeaBOSS Video transects of the sea floor in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. This dataset contains polylines showing extents of video transects documenting seabed characteristics in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 nautical square miles. Page C Valentine
SIM3341_stations_geology SeaBOSS Point shapefile of quadrangle 6 station locations in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary offshore of Boston, Massachusetts where video, photographs and sediment samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2004 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate. Page C Valentine
SIM3341_geologic_interp SeaBOSS Polygon shapefile of the interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 6 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts based on data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2004 Page C Valentine

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity