Summer 2018 LDEO/Queens College Sediment Sampling Cruise

In the summer of 2018, a group of scientists and students from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and Queens College of City University New York collected additional sediment grab samples and sediment cores using the vessels RV Seawolf and RV Pritchard from Stony Brook University. The RV Pritchard was used for collecting sediment cores in the shallow areas along the northern shore of the study area (Figure 3).

Figure 1. Sediment coring operations on the RV Pritchard (credit: C. McHugh)

Figure 2. Students assisting with sediment coring operations on the RV Pritchard (credit: C. McHugh)

Figure 3. Map of the study are in North-Eastern Long Island Sound showing the sediment grab and core locations of samples collected in summer 2018. Background water depth is provided by NOAA