Field Activity 2013-041-FA

Identifier 2013-041-FA -- CANCELED
Purpose Collect sediment samples, video, and photography for substrate mapping on Stellwagen Bank in collaboration with Stellwagen Bank NMS scientists.
Location Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts, United States, North America, Gulf of Maine, North Atlantic;,
Info derived Grain size analysis;Sea floor map;
Comments Mobilization will be on Friday at the SBNMS dock at 75 Edward Foster Road, Scituate, MA. Demob at the same location later in the week, after 3 days of survey. RV AUK is a SBNMS research vessel; 50 ft catamaran Project = New England Benthic Habitats,
Platform
Auk
Length: 50 feet; Beam: 20 feet.
Itinerary
Start Scituate, MA 2013-08-05
End Scituate, MA 2013-08-10
Days in the field 3-5
Bounds
West -70.4993
East -70.09277
North 42.40723
South 42.12675

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Page C Valentine
Crew members
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Page C Valentine
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Dr. David Wylie, Stellwagen Bank NMS

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Biological Field Study, Imagery, Sampling, Visual Identification, Time Series, Environmental Data
Data type: Navigation, Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Biology, Geology, Species ID, Mooring (physical oceanography), CTD, Temperature, Turbidity

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)
Pressure Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature (no data reported)
Turbidity Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
ROV Photo, Video, Biology, Geology (no data reported)
SBE 9 CTD CTD (no data reported)
Fluorometer Turbidity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity