Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s): WHOI, ONR
Information Specialist(s): Ellyn Montgomery
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy tripods at MVCO as part of the ONR Ripples DRI Project.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2007-08-27
End Date: 2007-08-27
Equipment Used: Video camera - deep sea, Temperature and salinity, Pressure, Turbidity, Current, Digital camera, GPS (wh), Push corer (wh)
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Used divers to find boundary between coarse and fine sand (best visual was ripple size) and mark. Deployed flow and particle/sonar tripods.
Staff: Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Michael Casso, Benedicte Ferre, Marinna Martini, Christopher Sherwood, Charles Worley
Affiliate Staff:
Traykovski
WHOI
collaborating scientist; Margaret Simon
VIMS (REU student observer)
Notes: Project = ONR Ripples DRI, ONR Ripples DRI
Location:
Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Boundaries | |||
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North: 41.35 | South: 41.26667 | West: -70.6167 | East: -70.48333 |
Platform(s):
Connecticut |
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
Temperature and salinity | --- | CTD Temperature | |
Pressure | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Turbidity | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Current | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2007-028-FA-PH-004 (Deck photos of field activity operations) |
GPS (wh) | --- | Navigation | |
Push corer (wh) | --- | Biology Geology | 2007-028-FA-SC-001 (diver push cores) |