| Identifier | 2016-038-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect seabed sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping project | ||||||||
| Location | Stellwagen Bank NMS | ||||||||
| Summary | Visited locations within Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. A customized Van Veen grab sampler (SEABOSS) equipped with a video camera and a conductivity, temperature, and depth (CTD) instrument was deployed in drift mode to collect sediment for grain-size analysis, video imagery of the seabed, and measurements of water column properties. Total stations 41; total CTD casts 41; total sediment samples 30; total video drifts (5 to 18 min, 1.1 to 3.9 gigabytes) 41; total seabed images 82; total sediment sample images 65. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sediment samples and seabed imageryfor geological mapping | ||||||||
| Comments | Travel to and from Scituate, MA for day-cruises to Stellwagen Bank. CTD required as for previous cruises. | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
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| Principal investigators | Page C Valentine | ||
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| Affiliate principal | Dr. David Wylie, SBNMS |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology |
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| Cruise log | Acquisition and observation logs for seabed video and sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | In addition to the CTD water column profiling, the CTD is equipped with auxiliary sensors to measure fluorescence and turbidity. The instrument was mounted on the SEABOSS frame. | CTD, Fluorescence, Turbidity | 1 |
| SeaBOSS | The SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) was used to collect sediment samples with a modified Van Veen sampler and video images of the seabed with GoPro cameras mounted on the frame. A CTD was mounted horizontally on the SEABOSS frame. | Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology | 2 |
| Nikon 7100 digital camera | Images were taken of the surface of the grab samples while still in the grab sampler. | Photo | 1 |
| GoPro camera | Seabed video images were collected using a GoPro digital video camera mounted on SEABOSS to provide ground-truth information for geophysical datasets and are used in seabed interpretations. Frame-grab images were extracted from the video. | Photo, Video | 2 |
| Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | The location information for stations was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30, GPS receiver) at one second intervals. | Navigation | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2016-038-FA_CTD | SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | Conductivity-temperature-depth, fluorescence and turbidity data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (text files). | Page C Valentine |
| 2016-038-FA_station_summary | SeaBOSS | Station and data summary for data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, point shapefile, XLSX and CSV formats) | Page C Valentine |
| stellwagen_2013_2019_sedsamps | SeaBOSS | Sediment samples for this field activity (as well as 19 additional field activities) collected on Stellwagen Bank. | |
| 2016-038-FA_SampleImages | Nikon 7100 digital camera | Grab sample still images collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (JPEG image format. EXIF headers have been added to include navigation and other meta tags). | Page C Valentine |
| 2016-038-FA_SeabedImages | GoPro camera | Seabed still images collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (JPEG image format. EXIF headers have been added to include navigation and other meta tags). | Page C Valentine |
| 2016-038-FA_video_driftlines | GoPro camera | Video transects of the sea floor collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, polyline shapefile format). | Page C Valentine |
| 2016-038-FA_nav | Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | Navigation data collectd aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, XLSX and CSV formats). | Page C Valentine |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| q5_geologic_interp | Interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 5 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts based on data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2019. | Page C Valentine |
| q5_stations_geology | Station locations in quadrangle 5 in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary offshore of Boston, Massachusetts where video, photographs and sediment samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2015 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate | Page C Valentine |
