Field Activity 2007-006-FA

Identifier 2007-006-FA
Purpose Benthic habitats studies and mapping.
Location Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary 99 USGS SEABOSS video/photo transects; 77 USGS bottom temp. records; 8 USGS Didemnum sp. samples; 4 NOAA 30-liter water samples; 55 NOAA Seabird CTD stations; 19 URI Naturalist dredge stations; 12 URI otter trawl stations. USGS data archived at USGS Woods Hole, MA (Valentine). NOAA Fisheries data archived at NMFS Woods Hole (Reed). URI data archived at URI, Narragansett, RI (Collie).
Info derived Habitat maps;
Comments Project = Atlantic Benthic Habitats, Atlantic Benthic Habitats Information from Foghorn P-code navigation; Other equipment: Otter trawl, beam trawl, naturalist dredge, CTD
Platform
Delaware II
Length: 155 ft (47 m); Beam: 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m).
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2007-07-02
End Woods Hole, MA 2007-07-13
Days in the field 12
Bounds
West -67.85
East -66.3
North 42.2
South 41.65

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
Information specialist(s)
Page C Valentine
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Robert Reid, NOAA Fisheries; Jeremy Collie, URI
Affiliate staff NOAA Fisheries: Robert Reid, Shayla Williams; URI: Jeremy Collie, Nicole Lengyel, Daniel Siriala; DFO Canada: Andrea Locke.

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
2007-006-FA-PH-001 SeaBOSS Bottom photos 1605 photos on 7-DVD taken by 35mm SeaBOSS camera. Linda P McCarthy
2007-006-FA-PH-002 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations. Dann S Blackwood

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity