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

Field Activity 2011-015-FA

Identifier 2011-015-FA
Purpose This is in response to a request for SeaBOSS for Mass CZM
Location Buzzards Bay, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;Middle Ground, Vineyard Sound, Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;,
Summary Sampling survey on the EPA's OSV Bold using the big SEABOSS
Info derived Grain size analysis;
Comments Project = MassCZM, MassCZM
Platform
OSV Bold
Length 224 feet; draft 15 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2011-09-09
End Woods Hole, MA 2011-09-16
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -71.12
East -69.9
North 41.99
South 41.19

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William C Schwab
Crew members
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Brian Andrews
Scientist, Staff
Kate McMullen
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Seth Ackerman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dan Sampson (Mass CZM)

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
Cruise log (document not focused on specific equipment) Acquisition log maintained during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (PDFs of Excel spreadsheets)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 2
GoPro camera GoPro HD HERO Photo, Video 1
Osprey camera system Kongsberg Simrad OE1365 video camera Photo, Video 2
Digital camera Konica Minolta DiMAGE A2 camera Photo 1
Van Veen grab sampler ship's Van Veen used when SEABOSS system was not operational Geology 1
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2011-015-FA_nav DGPS Text files of the navigation logged during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (ASCII text and CSV files) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_videos Osprey camera system Location of bottom video tracklines collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (polyline shapefile) Seth Ackerman

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2011-015-FA_photos DGPS Location of bottom still imagery along with images collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_photos GoPro camera Location of bottom still imagery along with images collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_photos Osprey camera system Location of bottom still imagery along with images collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_photos Digital camera Location of bottom still imagery along with images collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_samples Van Veen grab sampler Location and analysis of sediment samples collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (point shapefile and CSV file) Seth Ackerman
2011-015-FA_samples SeaBOSS Location and analysis of sediment samples collected during field activity 2011-015-FA by the U.S. Geological Survey and Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management offshore of Massachusetts around Cape Cod and the Islands in September 2011 (point shapefile and CSV file) Seth Ackerman

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity