Field Activity 2011-006-FA

Identifier 2011-006-FA
Purpose Groundtruth NOAA hydrographic surveys in Rhode Island Sound (H11995), Nantucket Sound (H12007), and Block Island Sound.
Location Rhode Island Sound, Nantucket Sound, Block Island Sound, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Sediment sampling and still and video bottom photography with the small SEABOSS
Comments Project = Sea & Lake/Data off Cape Cod, Sea & Lake/Data off Cape Cod
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2011-06-13
End Galilee, RI 2011-06-22
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -71.8011
East -70.09277
North 41.57025
South 41.1373

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Lawrence J Poppe
Crew members
Kate McMullen
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Lawrence J Poppe
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 5
DGPS Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2011-006-FA-NL-001 SeaBOSS SeaBOSS Log: 3 logbooks, 1 each for H12007, Nantucket Sound; H11995, Rhode Island Sound; and Block Island Sound. Linda P McCarthy
2011-006-FA-PH-001 SeaBOSS 706 bottom photos taken by SeaBOSS Lawrence J Poppe
2011-006-FA-SC-001 SeaBOSS Physical samples and lithologic descriptions from stations where statistically valid samples could not be collected at 137 stations Lawrence J Poppe
2011-006-FA-VD-001 SeaBOSS Bottom videos on DVDs for Nantucket Sound, Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound surveys. Linda P McCarthy
2011-006-FA-VD-002 SeaBOSS Bottom videos on Hi-8MM tapes for Nantucket Sound, Rhode Island Sound and Block Island Sound surveys. Linda P McCarthy
2011-006-FA-LN-001 DGPS Hypack navigation files Lawrence J Poppe

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity