| Identifier | 2016-039-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect seabed sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping project | ||||||||
| Location | Stellwagen Bank NMS | ||||||||
| 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 7; total CTD casts 7; total sediment samples 4; total video drifts (4 to 7 min, 0.9 to 1.5 gigabytes) 7; total seabed images 14; total sediment sample images 6. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping | ||||||||
| Comments | Travel to and from Scituate, MA for day-cruises to Stellwagen Bank. CTD required as for previous cruises. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Page C Valentine | ||
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| Affiliate principal | Dr. David Wylie, SBNMS |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology |
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| Cruise log | Acquisition and observation log for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank. |
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| SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera | Used to guide obstacle avoidance. Mounted on the SEABOSS. | Video | (no data reported) |
| 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 | 1 |
| Nikon 7100 digital camera | A Nikon 7100 camera was used to take photos of the sediment sample in the grab sampler to document the texture of the seabed surface, the degree of disturbance during sampling, biological features such as worm tubes, and to estimate the volume of sediment collected. | Photo | 1 |
| 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 |
| 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. The instruments were mounted on the SEABOSS frame. | 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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| 2016-2019_station_data_summary | SeaBOSS | Station and data summary for data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019 | Page C Valentine |
| SampleImages_2016-2019 | Nikon 7100 digital camera | Still images in JPEG format of the sediment surface in the grab sampler, collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019 | Page C Valentine |
| navigation_2016-2019 | Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | Navigation data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019 | Page C Valentine |
| CTD_2016-2019 | SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | CTD (conductivity-temperature-depth) data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019. Includes density, fluorescence (chlorophyll A), and turbidity configuration of the water column. | Page C Valentine |
| SeabedImages_2016-2019 | GoPro camera | Seabed still images in JPEG format with EXIF location information collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019 | Page C Valentine |
| video_driftlines_2016-2019 | GoPro camera | Video transects of the sea floor collected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Stellwagen Bank during six surveys aboard the R/V Auk, May 2016 to April 2019 | Page C Valentine |
