1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2005-008-FA

Identifier 2005-008-FA
Alternate names DE0511
Purpose Benthic habitat studies and sea floor mapping.
Location Georges Bank, United States, Canada, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary USGS SEABOSS video/photo transects: 133 stations; URI beam trawl: 11 stations; NMFS otter trawl: 6 stations; URI Naturalist dredge: 21 stations; NMFS CTD profiles: 16 stations.
Info derived Grain size analysis; Habitat maps;
Comments Mobilize in Woods Hole on Friday, Aug. 19, 2005; demobilize in Woods Hole on Friday, Sep. 2, 2005. Project = Georges Bank Habitats, Georges Bank Habitats Information from Foghorn: P-code GPS;
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Platform
Delaware II
Length: 155 ft (47 m); Beam: 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m).
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2005-08-22
End Woods Hole, MA 2005-09-02
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -67.55
East -66.5
North 42.13
South 41.66

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Page C Valentine
Crew members
Page C Valentine
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Heffron, Erin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Page C Valentine
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Robert Reid, NOAA Fisheries; Jeremy Collie, URI
Affiliate staff Robert Reid, NMFS, and colleagues; Jeremy Collie, URI, and students

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1
P-code GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Trawl Biology (no data reported)
Dredge Biology, Geology (no data reported)
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD (no data reported)
Digital camera Photo 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2005-008-FA-PH-001 SeaBOSS CD ROM disk of BOTTOM PHOTO GEORGES Nancy K. Soderberg
2005-008-FA-PH-002 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations Dann S Blackwood

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity