2012-002-FA (CMHRP activity #2401)

Field Activity 2012-002-FA

Identifier

2012-002-FA

Purpose

Ground-truth NOAA hydrographic surveys in Block Island Sound

Location

Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;, Block Island Sound, Rhode Island, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Summary

Stations were occupied along the shore of Rhode Island to collect sediment samples and bottom photography in order to verify NOAA surveys H12296 and H12023.

Info derived

Grain size analysis;Sea floor map;

Comments

Project = Sea & Lake/Data off Cape Cod,

Platform

Rafael

25 feet

Itinerary

Start	Galilee, Point Judith, RI	2012-06-11
End	Galilee, Point Judith, RI	2012-06-14
Days in the field	4

Bounds

West	-72.0648
East	-71.45508
North	41.38299
South	41.07728

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Lawrence J PoppeKate McMullen

Crew members

Dann S Blackwood	Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Lawrence J Poppe

Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
HYPACK	Navigation	(no data reported)
SeaBOSS	Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology	1
DGPS	Navigation	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2012-002-FA-VD-001-01	SeaBOSS	Bottom Video	Linda P McCarthy