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

Field Activity 2014-070-FA

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Identifier 2014-070-FA
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 33; total CTD casts 33; total sediment samples 27; total video drifts (2.5 to 4.5 min, 0.6 to 1.1 gigabytes) 33; total seabed images 66; total sediment sample images 0.
Info derived Sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping project.
Comments Mobilization will be on Friday, Dec 12 at Brewer Marine in Plymouth, MA Demob at the same location. RV AUK is the SBNMS research vessel; 50 ft catamaran.
Projects
Platform
Auk
Length: 50 feet; Beam: 20 feet.
Itinerary
Start Scituate, MA 2014-12-12
End Scituate, MA 2014-12-12
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.4224
East -70.19165
North 42.28544
South 42.10637

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Page C Valentine
Crew members
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Page C Valentine
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dr. David Wiley, Stellwagen Bank NMS

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Cruise log

Name Cruise log
Description Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank.
Digital location https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/data/field-activity-data/2014-070-FA/data/logs/2014-070-FA_log.pdf
Format PDF
Physical location Page Valentine's office
Media type Paper
Inventory system WHCMSC data library
Inventory number 105686

Equipment and datasets

Equipment or measuring device
SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD
CTD, Fluorescence, Turbidity
1
In addition to the CTD water column profiling, the CTD is equipped with auxiliary sensors to measure fluorescence and turbidity. The instrument was mounted on the SEABOSS frame.
2014-070-FA_CTD(38261)
Description Conductivity-temperature-depth, fluorescence and turbidity data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (text files).
Data types
CTD
Turbidity
Fluorescence
Format TEXT
Amount < 1 MB
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HVBS0Q
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_070_fa/2014-070-FA_CTD_meta.xml
Contact

Description and usage history of this equipment

GoPro camera
Photo, Video
2
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.
2014-070-FA_SeabedImages(38263)
Description Seabed still images collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (JPEG image format. EXIF headers have been added to include navigation and other meta tags).
Data types
Photo
Format JPEG
Amount 31
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HVBS0Q
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_070_fa/2014-070-FA_SeabedImages_meta.xml
2014-070-FA_video_driftlines(38262)
Description Video transects of the sea floor collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, polyline shapefile format).
Data types
Video
Format shapefile
Amount < 1 MB
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HVBS0Q
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_070_fa/2014-070-FA_video_driftlines_meta.xml
Contact

Description and usage history of this equipment

SeaBOSS
Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology
2
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.
2014-070-FA_station_summary(38258)
Description Station and data summary for data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, point shapefile, XLSX and CSV formats)
Data types
Surveys (biological)
Geology
Biology
Format XLSX, CSV
Amount < 1 MB
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HVBS0Q
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_070_fa/2014-070-FA_station_data_summary_meta.xml
Contact
Sediment samples(38259)
Description Sediment samples for this field activity (as well as 19 additional field activities) collected on Stellwagen Bank.
Data types
Geology
Format XLSX, CSV
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FWFLPD
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/SB_data_release/DR_P9FWFLPD/stellwagen_2013_2019_sedsamps.xml
Contact

Description and usage history of this equipment

Furuno satellite compass SC-30
Navigation
1
The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30, GPS receiver) at two second intervals.
2014-070-FA_nav(38260)
Description Navigation data collectd aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, XLSX and CSV formats).
Data types
Navigation
Format XLSX, CSV
Amount < 1 MB
Version 1
Public? Yes
Reviewed? Yes
Public URL https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HVBS0Q
Metadata https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/metadata/whcmsc/field_activities/2014_070_fa/2014-070-FA_nav_meta.xml
Contact

Description and usage history of this equipment

35 mm camera
Photo
(no data)
(No data records have been reported for this equipment)

Description and usage history of this equipment

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity

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By data category:
Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
By data type:
CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology