1995-001-FA (CMHRP activity #1307)

Field Activity 1995-001-FA

Identifier

1995-001-FA

Alternate names

JD95-1

Purpose

Bottom photography, textural, geochemical, and biological sampling in sidescan areas off Norwalk, Milford, and Clinton, Connecticut during Nov. 1993 and June 1994 cruises.

Location

central Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Comments

Cruise represents efforts to characterize spring benthic communities and textural distributions and comparison to summer conditions during August 1995 cruise. Original Center People field contained: Larry Poppe - Ch. Sci., Dann Blackwood - Photog. Project = CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies, CT Co-op/Long Island Sound Marine Studies

Platform

Dempsey

Length: 50 feet; Beam: 16 feet 3 in.

Itinerary

Start	Old Lyme, CT	1995-04-25
End	Milford, CT	1995-05-03
Days in the field	7

Bounds

West	-73.34625097
East	-72.51525879
North	41.2677145
South	40.98531195

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Lawrence J Poppe

Crew members

Lawrence J Poppe	Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Roman Zajac - UNH; Ralph Lewis - LISRC, CGNHS

Affiliate staff

R. Lewis, M. Cohen - LISRC; D. Toderlund - USCG; R. Zajac, S. Wilson, D. Selger, J. Dogiallo, C. Dodson, J. Howald, N. Zackeo - UNH

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sampling, Biological Field Study, Imagery, Visual Identification
Data type:	Navigation, Geology, Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Biology, Species ID

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, sample locations, maps of sample locations.
Sample log	Station log containing video, still camera and grab sample information for Hammonasset, CT survey, April 25 and May 2, 1995.
Sample log	Station log containing video, still camera and grab sample information for Norwalk, CT survey, April 27-30, 1995.
Sample log	Station log containing video, still camera and grab sample information for Milford, CT survey, April 26-30, 1995.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
DGPS	Navigation	(no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler	Geology	1
SeaBOSS	Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology	(no data reported)
Video camera - deep sea	Video	(no data reported)
Camera- deep sea	Photo	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1995-001-FA-SC-001	Van Veen grab sampler	GRAB samples	Brian Buczkowski