Field Activity O100GM

Identifier O100GM
Alternate names O-1-00-GM,OS-00-GM
Purpose Map the location and distribution of deep-water corals in the Pinnacles area.
Description Chief Scientist: Jim Gardner. Geophysical and High-Resolution Multibeam Sonar data (multibeam, motionsensor, GPS, CTDmeter) of field activity O-1-00-GM in Pinnacles Area, Gulf of Mexico from 05/23/2000 to 06/09/2000
Location Gulf of Mexico
Summary Map the location and distribution of deep-water corals in the Pinnacles area using high-resolution multibeam bathymetry and acoustic backscatter.
Info derived Bathymetry and calibrated acoustic backscatter
Comments For raw and intermediate data sets, contact Rani Nandiwada Staff information imported from InfoBank Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist Pete Dartnell (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Laurent Hellequin (University New Hampshire) - Unspecified Brian Calder (University New Hampshire) - Unspecified Roland Arsenault (University New Hampshire) - Unspecified
Projects
Platform
Ocean Surveyor
Itinerary
Start Venice, Los Angeles, CA 2000-05-23
End Venice, Los Angeles, CA 2000-06-09
Bounds
West -88.5333
East -87.35
North 29.6
South 29.15
Activity Geophysical and High-Resolution Multibeam Sonar

Personnel

Principal investigators Gardner, Jim
Crew members
Peter Dartnell
Scientist, Staff
Arsenault, Roland
Scientist, Staff
Hellequin, Laurent
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Peter Dartnell
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Brian Calder (University New Hampshire) - Unspecified

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Navigation, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Multibeam, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
motionsensor Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data reported)
sidescansonar Sidescan (no data reported)
multibeam Multibeam 1
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
File list multibeam Peter Dartnell

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity