Field Activity 1997-030-FA

Identifier 1997-030-FA
Alternate names ATS 9701
Purpose ROV deployment and measurement of pore water chemistry. Secondary objective: sediment cores for verification of in situ measurements and detailed survey/time-series of solid-phase metal contaminants.
Location Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook, New Jersey, New York, New York Bight, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis;
Comments USGS is providing only the coring capability to this cruise. No post-cruise report filed; information taken from pre-cruise report and field logs. Original Center People field contained: Marilyn ten Brink, Peter Gill, MOF staff to load for transport.
Platform
Atlantic Surveyor
Length 110 feet; beam 26 feet; draft 9 feet.
Itinerary
Start Pt. Pleasant, NJ 1997-06-22
End Pt. Pleasant, NJ 1997-07-01
Days in the field 9
Bounds
West -74.1788
East -73.77503
North 40.4886
South 40.3179

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Marilyn ten Brink
Crew members
Marilyn ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Peter W. Gill
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Marilyn ten Brink
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Clare Reimers - Rutgers Univ.
Affiliate staff Clare E. Reimers - Institute of Marine Science, Rutgers Univ.; Tomoko Komada - Rutgers; George Luther - U. Delaware; Andy Bono - U. Delaware; Don Nuzzio - AIS; Dave Lovalvo - ROV, Eastern Oceanics; Andy Draxler - NOAA; Sue Boehme - Rutgers; Vince Guida - NOAA

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Slow corer Geology 5
Video camera - deep sea Video (no data reported)
Digital camera Photo (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1997-030-FA-SC-001-01 Slow corer ATS 9701 Wet/Dry Weights - Log of core wet/dry weights: 36 pages of notes and computer tables containing data for various cores. Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-030-FA-SC-001-02 Slow corer ATS 9701 Plots - Logs of core plots: 2 binders containing hand-written checklists, directory printouts, and plots of trace element data for various cores. Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-030-FA-SC-001-03 Slow corer ATS 9701 Gamma Data: 1 binder with notes about various cores; notes may include copies of USGS PGT Ge Well Detector Logs, Excel spreadsheet printouts with mini graphs, larger graph printouts, and computer printouts of sample analysis. Some printed sheets have hand-written notes on them. Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-030-FA-SC-001-04 Slow corer ATS 9701 Texture Data printouts: 1 binder containing sediment laboratory requests for analysis and analysis printouts for various samples. Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-030-FA-SC-002 Slow corer CORE samples Brian Buczkowski

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity