Field Activity 2020-302-FA

Identifier 2020-302-FA
Purpose To collect Gulf of Mexico Sediment Trap.
Location Gulf of Mexico
Summary Collected 2 sediment traps, CTD samples, and 39 live G. truncatulinoides.
Info derived Foraminifera Flux
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-307-FA
Platform
Pelican
116'
Vehicles
Chevy Suburban Silver
Itinerary
Start Cocodrie, LA 2020-02-07
End Cocodrie, LA 2020-02-10
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -91.40625
East -86.93359375
North 27.97499795
South 25.63375911

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Julie N Richey
Crew members
Caitlin E Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Julie N Richey
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Caitlin E Reynolds
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Sampling
Data type: CTD, Chemistry, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Rosette The rosette was used to collect CTD information which was submitted as a separate collection. Chemistry (no data reported)
Conductivity, Temperature and Depth (CTD) Logger/Probe CTD cast had lots of errors when deploying. Some temperature, oxygen, sanity, and depth was collected, but not all. CTD (no data reported)
Sediment Trap 2 sediment traps were collected. 13 cup trap (poisoned with sodium borate) and 21 cup trap (poisoned with formaldehyde). Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity