| Identifier | 2016-037-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | surfical sea floor mapping offshore of Town Neck Beach (MA) | ||||||||
| Location | Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA | ||||||||
| Summary | seaboss surveys were conducted to evaluate the seafloor composition of the nearshore region of town neck beach | ||||||||
| Info derived | sea floor sediment samples, sea floor video and photographs | ||||||||
| Comments | Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-017-FA Also staffed by Abigail Ball | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
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| Principal investigators | Seth AckermanChristopher R Sherwood | ||||||||
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| Data category: | Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling |
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| Data type: | Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| WAAS/DGPS | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera | Mounted on the SEABOSS system. | Video | 1 |
| SeaBOSS | The MiniSEABOSS (SEABed Observation and Sampling System) 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. | Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology | 1 |
| GoPro camera | Mounted on the SEABOSS system. | Photo, Video | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2016-037-FA_videos | SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera | Location of bottom video tracklines along with videos collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (MP4 video files and polyline shapefile) | Seth Ackerman |
| 2016-037-FA_samples | SeaBOSS | Grain-size analysis of sediment samples collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich in Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (CSV file and simplified shapefile) | Seth Ackerman |
| 2016-037-FA_photos | GoPro camera | Location of bottom photographs along with images collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) | Seth Ackerman |
