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

Field Activity 2023-651-FA

Identifier 2023-651-FA
Purpose To collect hydrothermal geochemical data including push cores and hydrothermal minerals
Location Western Galapagos Spreading Center
Info derived Mineralogy, geochemical composition, grain size, total organic and inorganic carbon
Comments I am the primary investigator for USGS and the geochemical (rock/push core characterization) section of this project; Roxanne Beinart (URI) and Jill McDermott (Lehigh) are the primary investigators for the project.
Projects
Platform
Falkor (too)
110.6 m (363 ft) in length, 20 m (66ft) in beam/width
Itinerary
Start Balboa, Panama 2023-08-12
End Puerto Ayora, Ecuador 2023-09-10
Days in the field 29
Bounds
West -94.775
East -90.31
North 2.6
South -0.747

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Amy Gartman
Crew members
Katlin Adamczyk
Scientist, Staff
Jaycee J Favela
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Amy Gartman
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Roxanne Beinart (URI) and Jill McDermott (Lehigh)

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
grab sampler Surveys (geochemical), Geology (no data reported)
push cores Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity