| Identifier | 2017-043-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Collect seabed sediment samples 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 39; total CTD casts 39; total sediment samples 37; total video drifts (4 to 10 min, 0.9 to 5.0 gigabytes) 39; total seabed images 78; total sediment sample images 64. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sediment samples and seabed imagery for geological mapping | ||||||||
| Comments | Travel to and from Scituate, MA for day-cruises to Stellwagen Bank. CTD required as for previous cruises. Load Auk on Mon Aug 21 in Scituate, MA | ||||||||
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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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| 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 and its maximum depth is approximately 1 meter above the seabed. | Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology | 3 |
| GoPro camera | Seabed video images were collected using a battery-operated, high-definition (1920 x 1080 pixels) GoPro digital video camera mounted on the USGS SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS). The SEABOSS system had two GoPro cameras and a Seaviewer camera attached to it. The Seaviewer camera had a live feed to the surface and was used only to observe obstacles, like gill nets and lobster gear, in order to avoid entanglement. In the case of camera failure, the additional cameras provided backup video, which was needed for stations 4656 and 4662. As the SEABOSS drifted over the seabed, the cameras imaged the seabed at a rate of 60 frames per second from an altitude of ~1 meter. | Photo, Video | 2 |
| Furuno satellite compass SC-30 | The location information was acquired from a satellite navigation receiver (Furuno satellite compass SC-30, GPS receiver) at two second interval. | Navigation | 1 |
| Nikon 7100 digital camera | A Nikon 7100 camera was used to take photos of the sediment sample in the grab sampler to document the texture of the seabed surface, the degree of disturbance during sampling, biological features such as worm tubes, and to estimate the volume of sediment collected. | Photo | 1 |
| SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | These data were collected with a Sea-Bird CTD (conductivity, temperature, depth) instrument - a SBE 19plus SeaCAT Profiler CTD. In addition to the CTD water column profiling, the CTD is equipped with auxiliary sensors to measure fluorescence and turbidity. This instrument was deployed on the USGS SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS). The CTD is mounted horizontally on the SEABOSS frame and its maximum depth is approximately 1 meter above the seabed. | CTD, Fluorescence, Turbidity | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2017-043-FA_sedsamples | SeaBOSS | Location and analyses of sediment samples collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (Geographic, WGS 84, point shapefile, XLSX and CSV formats). | Page C Valentine |
| 2017-043-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 |
| 2017-043-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 |
| 2017-043-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 |
| 2017-043-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 |
| 2017-043-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 |
| 2017-043-FA_CTD | SBE 19plus V2 SeaCAT Profiler CTD | Conductivity-temperature-depth data collected aboard the R/V Auk on Stellwagen Bank (text files). | Page C Valentine |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| q2_stations_geology | SeaBOSS | Station locations in quadrangle 2 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 1993-2019 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate. This shapefile contains the quadrangle 2 station locations, interpreted geologic substrate at each location, and description of sampling type (sediment sample, video, photograph). Station locations that have sediment samples include the sediment analyses data. These stations represent information used in the geologic interpretation. | Page C Valentine |
| Dataset name | Description | Dataset contact |
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| q2_geologic_interp | Interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 2 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. This interpretation is based on multibeam sonar bathymetry, multibeam backscatter imagery, video, photos, and grain-size analyses of samples collected from the seabed in the time period 1993-2019. | Page C Valentine |
