Field Activity 2006-031-FA

Identifier 2006-031-FA
Purpose Ground truth with SEABOSS to collect sea floor sediment samples, video transects and still photos in four areas with four sites each area.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Sediment samples processed and stored in WHSC; Field logs with Chris Hein, BU; Videos on tape and DVD with Dann Blackwood; Still photos on film and digitized on DVD with Dann Blackwood.
Info derived Grain size analysis; Habitat maps;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Dann Blackwood, SEABOSS tech.; Seth Ackerman, watchstander. Project = Groundtruth of existing cod habitats, Groundtruth of existing cod habitats Information from Foghorn: SEABOSS with hand-deployed yellow wire;
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Platform
Venture
Scalloper, Gloucester, Ma
Itinerary
Start Gloucester, MA 2006-09-18
End Gloucester, MA 2006-09-23
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -70.7667
East -70.63333
North 42.75
South 42.65

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Dann S Blackwood
Crew members
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Kathryn Ford, DMF
Affiliate staff Chris Hein, chief scientist, BU

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology (no data reported)
Digital camera Photo 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2006-031-FA-PH-001 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations Dann S Blackwood

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity