1997-002-FA (CMHRP activity #1397)

Field Activity 1997-002-FA

Identifier

1997-002-FA

Purpose

Bottom photography and textural, geochemical and biological sampling to map nearshore regional textural distributions in western Long Island Sound.

Location

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

Comments

Nearshore sampling along the coastlines of western Long Island Sound in CT-NY to complement the 1996 deeper-water ANDERSON and nearshore DEMPSEY sampling and to complete the textural map/database. Original Center People field contained: Larry Poppe - Chief Scientist; Dann Blackwood - Photographer; Brendt Taylor - Technician. Project = Sediment Texture: Database and Mapping, Sediment Texture: Database and Mapping

Platform

Dempsey

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

Itinerary

Start	Milford, CT	1997-03-25
End	Milford, CT	1997-03-28
Days in the field	3

Bounds

West	-73.9194
East	-72.91626
North	41.20711
South	40.83875

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
Taylor, Brenton B.	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Ralph Lewis - LISRC, CGNHS, CT-DEP

Affiliate staff

Mary DiGiacomo-Cohen, Ralph Lewis - LISRC

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Sample log	Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 25-28, 1997, including sample description, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
DGPS	Navigation	1
Van Veen grab sampler	Geology	1
Osprey camera system	Photo, Video	1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1997-002-FA-LN-001	DGPS	Floppy disk(s) containing NAV DGPS MARK,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-002-FA-NL-001-01	Van Veen grab sampler	Sample log for western Long Island Sound, March 25-28, 1997, including sample description, video camera transects, and still camera exposures.	Linda P McCarthy
1997-002-FA-VD-001	Osprey camera system	2 Hi-8 cassette tapes of bottom video from western Long Island Sound	Alice M. Orton