| Identifier | 2024-649-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | Hawaii abyssal nodules and ecosystems | ||||||||
| Purpose | To determine the distribution of abyssal manganese nodules and characterize the environmental setting of the abyssal plains in U.S. waters far offshore Hawaii, including fauna on the nodules, within the sediments, and in the overlying water column. | ||||||||
| Location | Southernmost portion of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, south of the Island of Hawaii. | ||||||||
| Info derived | marine mineral presence, marine mineral abundance, marine mineral composition, microbial community composition and diversity, benthic fauna composition and diversity, water column fauna composition and diversity | ||||||||
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2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
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| Principal investigators | Kira Mizell |
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| Affiliate principal | Gartman, Amy |
| Data category: | Imagery, Biological Field Study, Visual Identification, Sampling, Geochemical, Environmental Data |
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| Data type: | Video, Surveys (biological), Ground Truthing, Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Surveys (geochemical), Dissolved Oxygen, Sediment Properties, pH, Nutrients, Turbidity, CTD |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Nutrient sampler | Chlorophyll, Nutrients | (no data reported) | |
| Sediment trap | Sediment Properties, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| sampling equipment | Biology, Chemistry, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Ground truthing obsvervations | Ground Truthing | (no data reported) | |
| sample | Surveys (biological) | (no data reported) | |
| Camera-video | Photo, Video | (no data reported) | |
| boxcore | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| RBR Virtuoso | Mooring (physical oceanography), Tide, Wave, Turbidity, pH, ORP, Fluorescence, Dissolved Oxygen, Temperature, Pressure, CTD | (no data reported) | |
| CTD | Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD | (no data reported) |