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

Field Activity 2018-065-FA

Identifier 2018-065-FA
Purpose Recover dataloggers, osmosamplers and the collect samples with Octopipi water sampler from coastal caves in the Yucatan Penisula Mexico.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico
Info derived Geochemical data from anchialine caves
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-031-FA. No USGS personnel participated in this activity to recover the deployed instruments.
Projects
Related activities
2018-031-FA: Deployment-recovery
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico 2018-07-31
End Tulum/Playa Del Carmen Mexico 2018-08-04
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -87.5693
East -87.41655884
North 20.28293751
South 20.10841783

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Neil Kamal GanjuJohn Pohlman
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
John Pohlman
Specialist, Information
Steven E Suttles
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal David Brankovits, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Data types and categories

Data category: Time Series, Sampling, Environmental Data
Data type: Geochemical Monitoring, Chemistry, Temperature, pH, Methane, Fluorescence, Dissolved Oxygen, Depth, Current, Conductivity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Other Unknown, Mooring (physical oceanography), Biology Monitoring, Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)
Water sampler Chemistry (no data reported)
Gas sampler Dissolved Oxygen, Gas Hydrates, Methane (no data reported)
Norteck ADV Current (no data reported)
YSI EXO2 Multi-parameter Sonde Chlorophyll, Conductivity, Depth, Dissolved Oxygen, Fluorescence, Nitrate, ORP, pH, Temperature, Turbidity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity