Other ID: MH43-03
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): Michael Casso, Frances Lightsom
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Temperature, Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Exchange moorings offshore of Boston and Scituate. Collect sediment cores and deploy oxygen profiler and benthic chambers at long-term sediment monitoring sites.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: U.S. Coast Guard Base, Commercial Street, Boston, MA
End Port/Location: U.S. Coast Guard Base, Commercial Street, Boston, MA
Start Date: 2003-09-24
End Date: 2003-09-25
Equipment Used: Oxygen profiling system from Sayles, Benthic Chambers, DGPS, Temperature and salinity, Pressure, Turbidity, Current, Slow corer, Video camera - deep sea, Camera- deep sea, Digital camera
Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Diving not required. Moorings deployed: 4 (#716 and 718 both recovered FA 04016 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 5-6, 2004; #717 and 719 both recovered FA 04023 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Apr. 7-8, 2004). Moorings recovered: 4 (#707 and 708 both deployed FA 03020 CONNECTICUT Mar. 29-31, 2003; #709 and 710 both deployed FA 03028 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Apr. 23, 2003). Moorings exchanged successfully at sites A and B. A sufficient number of cores was collected at Station 3, but not at Station 2 because the core closure mechanism broke.
Staff: Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Michael Bothner, Michael Casso, John Crusius, Marinna Martini, Andree Ramsey, Richard Rendigs, Stephen Ruane
Affiliate Staff:
William Martin
Joanne Goudreau (both at WHOI and responsible for benthic chambers and oxygen profilers)
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Sea going personnel (also mob and transportation): Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Mike Bothner, Michael Casso, John Crusius, Marinna Martini, Andree Ramsey, Richard Rendigs, Stephen Ruane.
Project = The Massachusetts Bay Experiment, The Massachusetts Bay Experiment
Location:
Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 42.39765733 | South: 42.36908558 | West: -70.84259033 | East: -70.80520259 |
Platform(s):
Marcus Hanna |
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.
Bothner, M.H., Butman, B., and Casso, M.A., 2010, Review of oceanographic and geochemical data collected in Massachusetts Bay during a large discharge of total suspended solids from Boston’s sewage-treatment system and ocean outfall in August 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1050, 11 p., at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101050.
Butman, B., Bothner, M.H., Alexander, P.S., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., and Strahle, W.S., 2004, Long-term oceanographic observations in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts; data report for 1989-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-74, Version 2.0, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74_v2.
Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., Borden, J., Casso, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., Hastings, M.E., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Montgomery, E.T., Rendigs, R.R., and Strahle, W.S., 2009, Long-term oceanographic observations in Massachusetts Bay, 1989 - 2006 (version 3): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 74, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74.
Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., and Lange, W.N., 2008, Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, 1996 - 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 266, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds266.
Kalnejais, L.H., Martin, William R., and Bothner, Michael H., 2010, The release of dissolved nutrients and metals from coastal sediments due to resuspension: Marine Chemistry, v. 121 no. 1-4, pp. 224–235, doi: 10.1016/j.marchem.2010.05.002.
Kalnejais, L.H., Martin, William R., Signell, Richard P., and Bothner, Michael H., 2007, Role of sediment resuspension in the remobilization of particulate-phase metals from coastal sediments: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41 no. 7, doi: 10.1021/es061770z.
Martini, M., Butman, Bradford, and Mickelson, Michael J., 2007, Long-term performance of Aanderaa Optodes and Sea-Bird SBE-43 dissolved-oxygen sensors bottom mounted at 32 m in Massachusetts Bay: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, v. 24 no. 11, URL: http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FJTECH2078.1.
Warner, J.C., Butman, B., and Dalyander, P. S., 2008, Storm-driven sediment transport in Massachusetts Bay: Continental Shelf Research, v. 28 no. 2, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.08.008.
Warner, J.C., Sherwood, Christopher R., Signell, Richard P., Harris, Courtney K., and Arango, Hernan G., 2008, Development of a three-dimensional, regional, coupled wave, current, and sediment-transport model: Computers and Geosciences, v. 34 no. 10, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.012.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Oxygen profiling system from Sayles | --- | Dissolved Oxygen | |
Benthic Chambers | --- | Experiments (geochemical) | |
DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
Temperature and salinity | --- | CTD Temperature | |
Pressure | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Turbidity | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Current | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Slow corer | --- | Geology | 2003-043-FA-SC-001 (core, grab samples) |
Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | 2003-043-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 717; 20030924-20040704) |
Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2003-043-FA-PH-002 (Deck photos of field activity operations) |