| Identifier | 2014-066-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping project. | ||||||||
| Location | Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts, United States, North America, Gulf of Maine, North Atlantic | ||||||||
| Summary | Visited locations within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. A customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) instrument was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties. Total stations 44; total CTD casts 43; total sediment samples 28; total video drifts (3.1 to 9.4 min, 0.7 to 2.1 gigabytes) 44; total seabed images 88; total sediment sample images 0. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sediment samples and seabed imagery | ||||||||
| Comments | Mobilization will be on Sunday Sep 21, 2014 at the SBNMS dock at 75 Edward Foster Road, Scituate, MA. Demob at the same location. RV AUK is the SBNMS research vessel; 50 ft catamaran. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-055-FA | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
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| Principal investigators | Page C Valentine | ||
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| Affiliate principal | Dr. David Wiley, Stellwagen Bank NMS |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology, Fluorescence, Turbidity |
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| Cruise log | Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| SeaBOSS | The SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) was used to collect sediment samples with a modified Van Veen sampler and video images of the seabed with GoPro cameras mounted on the frame. A CTD was mounted horizontally on the SEABOSS frame. | Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology | 2 |
| Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30, GPS receiver). | Navigation | 1 |
| 35 mm camera | Photo | (no data reported) | |
| SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | In addition to the CTD water column profiling, the CTD is equipped with auxiliary sensors to measure fluorescence and turbidity. | CTD, Fluorescence, Turbidity | 1 |
| GoPro camera | Seabed video images were collected using a GoPro digital video camera mounted on SEABOSS to provide ground-truth information for geophysical datasets and are used in seabed interpretations. Frame-grab images were extracted from the video. | Photo, Video | 2 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2014-066-FA_station_summary | SeaBOSS | Station and data summary for data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank | Page C Valentine |
| Seabed samples | SeaBOSS | Location and analyses of sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank for this field activity and 19 additional field activities. | |
| 2014-066-FA_nav | Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | Navigation data collectd aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank | Page C Valentine |
| 2014-066-FA_CTD | SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | Conductivity-temperature-depth, fluorescence and turbidity data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank | Page C Valentine |
| 2014-066-FA_SeabedImages | GoPro camera | Seabed still images collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank | Page C Valentine |
| 2014-066-FA_video_driftlines | GoPro camera | Video transects of the sea floor collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank | Page C Valentine |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| q5_geologic_interp | Interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 5 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts based on data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2019. | Page C Valentine |
| q5_stations_geology | Station locations in quadrangle 5 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 1993-2015 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate | Page C Valentine |
