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

Field Activity 2011-002-FA

Identifier 2011-002-FA
Alternate names NBP-1103
Purpose Collect multibeam bathymetry and seafloor photos to map and characterize possible cold-water coral habitats in the Drake Passage area. Fossil and live corals will be collected by dredge and trawl for paleoclimate and biologic studies. All data will be archived at WHOI and will be the responsiblity of Principal Investigator Dr. Laura Robinson. USGS (Scanlon) will have access to data for collaborative studies.
Location Drake Passage, Chile, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Southern Ocean
Summary Multibeam data, biological samples, fossil coral samples, rock samples, and photographic data were collected from sites in the Drake Passage between South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. Sites ranged from shelf edge to deep ocean and included the following areas: Burdwood Bank, Shackleton Fracture Zone, West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf, Interim Seamount, Sars Seamount, and Cape Horn Shelf. In addition, 6 CTDs and 6 sediment cores were collected. Data collection on this cruise adds to the field work begun on NBP-0805 (2008-004-FA)cruise in 2008.
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis;Grain size analysis;Bathymetric maps;
Comments No data archived at USGS. All data will be archived at WHOI and will be the responsiblity of Principal Investigator Dr. Laura Robinson. USGS (Scanlon) will have access to data for collaborative studies. Project = Drake Passage Habitats,
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Platform
Nathaniel B Palmer
Length 308 feet; beam 60 feet; draft 22 feet.
Itinerary
Start Punta Arenas, Chile 2011-05-09
End Punta Arenas, Chile 2011-06-11
Days in the field 34
Bounds
West -79.1016
East -49.21875
North -52.48278
South -65.51296

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kathryn Scanlon Catanach
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Kathryn Scanlon Catanach
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Laura Robinson, WHOI and Bristol University UK
Affiliate staff Laura Robinson, WHOI / Bristol University UK Rhian Waller, University of Maine Tina Van de Flierdt, Imperial College UK Ben Pietro, WHOI Marshall Swartz, WHOI Mercer Brugler, American Museum of Natural History Kais Mohamed Falcon, WHOI Kate Hendry, WHOI Michelle Taylor, Oxford University UK Mariana Escolar, CONICET, Argentina Andrea Burke, WHOI David Case, Caltech Suzanne Jennions, University of Bristol UK Dr. Eric Pante, University of Louisiana Christopher Roy, University of Maine Shannon Hoy, College of Charleston Andrew Margolin, University of Colorado John Swartz, Pittsburg University Sebastian Velez, University of Maine

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Photo, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Trawl Biology (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
Camera- deep sea Photo (no data reported)
Simrad EM120 Multibeam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity