| Identifier | 2018-018-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | To collect ground truth sediment samples, video and photographs to help characterize the seafloor geology and biota | ||||||||
| Location | Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, Atlantic Ocean | ||||||||
| Summary | SEABOSS operations were conducted in Long Island Sound aboard the R/V Connecticut from May 8-15, 2018 as part of an agreement with LISMaRC project, partnered with scientists at UConn and Univ of New Haven. A total of 117 sampling sites were occupied during the survey where videos, still photographs and sediment samples were collected using the Interocean version of the SEABOSS. Navigation was determined using a WAAS-enabled Garmin GPSMAP 76C GPS receiver that was located approximately 3 meters away from the SEABOSS deployment point. | ||||||||
| Info derived | grain size, seafloor character | ||||||||
| Comments | SEABOSS operations will be conducted in Long Island Sound aboard the R/V Connecticut as part of an agreement with Univ of Connecticut (LISMaRC project) to map the geology and biota of Long Island Sound. This work is in conjunction with additional collaborators from University of New Haven and Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Columbia University). Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2017-056-FA | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
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| Principal investigators | Seth AckermanDann S Blackwood | ||||
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| Affiliate principal | Roman Zajac (Univ of New Haven) Ivar Babb (Univ of Conn) |
| Data category: | Imagery, Sampling |
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| Data type: | Photo, Video, Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| GoPro camera | GoPro HERO4 Black camerarecording backup video mounted on the SEABOSS. Attached to Nikon housing to capture still images when the photosea strobe stopped working. | Photo, Video | 1 |
| SeaBOSS | The SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) was used to collect sediment samples with a modified Van Veen sampler and video and still images of the seabed with cameras mounted on the SEABOSS frame. | Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology | 1 |
| Nikon D300 | Digital still camera with a Photosea strobe mounted on the SEABOSS. Strobe stopped working on the cruise. | Photo | 1 |
| Osprey camera system | Kongsberg Simrad OE1365 video camera on the SEABOSS (high-resolution CCD color camera). | Photo, Video | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_photos | GoPro camera | Geotagged sea-floor images and location of bottom images collected in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven during field activities 2017-056-FA and 2018-018-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file). On 2018-018-FA, the GoPro was used when the strobe failed to work for the Nikon camera. | Seth Ackerman |
| 2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_samples | SeaBOSS | Location and grain-size analysis results of sediment samples collected in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven during field activities 2017-056-FA and 2018-018-FA (simplified point shapefile and CSV files). The sediments were analyzed using two different methods: the Beckman Coulter Multisizer 3 and sieving of the >= 4-phi fraction, and the HORIBA LA-960 laser diffraction analyzer and sieving of the >= -2-phi fraction. The HORIBA LA-960 laser diffraction analyzer is a new method for analyzing grain-size distribution at the sediment laboratory at the USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center. | Seth Ackerman |
| 2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_photos | Nikon D300 | Geotagged sea-floor images and location of bottom images collected in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven during field activities 2017-056-FA and 2018-018-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file). On 2018-018-FA, the GoPro was used when the strobe failed to work for the Nikon camera. | Seth Ackerman |
| 2017-056-FA_and_2018-018-FA_videos | Osprey camera system | Sea-floor videos and location of bottom video tracklines collected in Long Island Sound, Connecticut and New York, in fall 2017 and spring 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey, University of Connecticut, and University of New Haven during field activities 2017-056-FA and 2018-018-FA (MP4 video files and polyline shapefile) | Seth Ackerman |
