Other ID: IB P-74-00-MY
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Michael Bothner
Affiliate Investigator(s): William Martin, WHOI
Information Specialist(s): PARTNER
Data Type(s): Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy two benthic chambers ("squirts") near the long-term Station 3. The purpose is to measure the flux of metals and nutrients from sediments. Discharge of sewage effluent from the Massachusetts Bay outfall began on September 6.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Boston, MA
End Port/Location: Boston, MA
Start Date: 2000-09-22
End Date: 2000-09-22
Equipment Used: Benthic Chambers, Digital camera, DGPS
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Each pair of divers deployed one benthic chamber in one dive. The chambers were lowered in a weighted frame and divers lifted the chambers out of the frame and placed them on the bottom nearby. Visibility was poor.
Staff: Dann Blackwood, Michael Bothner
Affiliate Staff:
From WHOI: William Martin (chief scientist)
Joanne Goudreau
Lary Ball (lead diver)
Tom Bolmer
Jay Sisson (divers)
Notes: Lary Ball and his dive team are all WHOI certified. Original Center People field contained: Mike Bothner, Dann Blackwood (diver). Data Curator: Bill Martin.
Project = Flux of metals from contaminated sediments, Flux of metals from contaminated sediments
Location:
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.4 | South: 42.3 | West: -70.9 | East: -70.8 |
Platform(s):
 Pendant |
Bothner, M.H., and Butman, Bradford (eds.), 2007, Processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminated sediments in the coastal ocean—Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1302, 89 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1302.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benthic Chambers | --- | Experiments (geochemical) | |
| Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2000-074-FA-PH-001 (Photos taken by Dann Blackwood documenting the deck operations during this field activity.) |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation |
