CGC Chincoteague, Cook Inlet, Coos Bay, Duane, and Escanaba

Abstract

This item contains cruise data from five different Coast Guard Cutter vessels Chincoteague (March 09,1961 to December 19, 1963), Cook Inlet (March 1, 1961 to October 03, 1963), Coos Bay (January 9, 1963 to October 03, 1963), Duane (December 04, 1960 to September 04, 1963), and Escanaba (March 17, 1961 to December 27, 1963). Escanaba cruise is accompanied by an instructional guide and example data sheets. Data from the cruises covers plankton sampling in the North Atlantic Ocean near the mid-Altantic, New England United States, and Canada and near the Labrador Sea. The bulk of the collection consists of data sheets recording the following information: "opening and closing plankton tows", "Nansen bottles", ship and cruise no., station no., sample number, total no. samples, coordinates, date, local time, tow type, net in, net out, length of tow, wire angle at max depth, flowmeter reading, corrected depth range, flowmeter no., displacement vol., flowmeter calibration factor, corrected displ. vol., vol. H20 filtered, wire angle information, sky condition, sea condition, surface water temperature, BT slide data, BT temperatures, surface salinity, core no., comments (successful? If not why?), observer name.

Date Range

1960-1963

Start Date

Dec 04, 1960

End Date

Sep 04, 1963

Access Information

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Topic

• Marine Biology
• Plankton
• Invertebrates
• Marine biologists
• Marine biology

Place

• Labrador Sea
• Atlantic Ocean
• North Atlantic Ocean

Form/Genre

• Fieldbook record
• Field notes
• Logbooks

Accession #

SIA Acc. 09-008

Collection name

Allan W. H. Bé papers, circa 1953-1969

Physical Description

1 logbook

Physical Location

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Sublocation

Box 8 Folder 2