1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2016-044-FA

Identifier 2016-044-FA
Purpose Deep sea corals and benthic habitats
Location Keller Canyon to Cape Fear Slide
Summary Sediment samples (sub-sampled from push cores), CTD data
Info derived samples (chaytor) - grain size, composition
Comments Samples from Cape Fear Landslide and Hatteras canyon send to WHCMSC. Geological samples were collected using a monocorer attached to the base of the CTD.
Platform
Pisces
Itinerary
Start Quonset Point, RI 2016-08-24
End Quonset Point, RI 2016-09-03
Days in the field 9
Bounds
West -76.35498047
East -71.05908203
North 35.61041789
South 30.85567461

Personnel

Organization
USGS, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
Gainesville, FL
Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Jason Chaytor
Crew members
(not identified)
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jason Chaytor
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Amanda Demopoulos

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Surveys (biological), CTD, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Other Unknown, Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological) (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
monocorer Biology, Geology (no data reported)
SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD CTD, Fluorescence, Turbidity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity