Field Activity 2006-019-FA

Identifier 2006-019-FA
Purpose Occupy 50 SEABOSS stations to collect sea floor sediment samples, video transects and still camera photos.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Weather delayed work. Most sites done on June 5-6, 2006. Sediment Samples: stored at WHSC; Field logs, Video tapes and dvds, Still photos, Navigation log and file.
Info derived Grain size analysis; Habitat maps;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Dann Blackwood, SEABOSS tech.; Seth Ackerman, watchstander. Project = Groundtruth of existing cod habitats, Groundtruth of existing cod habitats Information from Foghorn: SEABOSS with hand-deployed yellow wire;
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Platform
Venture
Scalloper, Gloucester, Ma
Itinerary
Start Gloucester, MA 2006-05-08
End Gloucester, MA 2006-06-06
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -71
East -70.58
North 42.5
South 42.33333

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Dann S Blackwood
Crew members
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Seth Ackerman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Kathryn Ford, Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
Affiliate staff Kathyrn Ford, DMF, Chief Scientist and others TBA

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
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1
Digital camera Photo 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2006-019-FA-SC-001 SeaBOSS grab samples Brian Buczkowski
2006-019-FA-PH-001 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations Dann S Blackwood

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity