Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Barrier Evolution (MN00F1F)
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s): Melanie Hayn , MBL/Cornell
Information Specialist(s): Christopher Sherwood
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy 2 tide gauges to complement mapping, 1094 & 1095
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: West Falmouth, MA
End Port/Location: West Falmouth, MA
Start Date: 2017-04-19
End Date: 2017-05-05
Equipment Used: Real Time Kinematic GPS, Pressure
Information to be Derived: water surface elevations
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: the sensors were deployed and collected data for 2+ months
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Sandra Brosnahan, Eric Marsjanik, Steven Suttles
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-027-FA. The tide gauges will be Mooring IDs 1094 and 1095.
Also see 2017-024-FA and 2017-041-FA.
The data from this deployment is at: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7K936D0
Location:
West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts,United States
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.61076464 | South: 41.5974726 | West: -70.6555 | East: -70.63402176 |
Platform(s):
 on foot |
Montgomery, E.T., Sherwood, C.R., Brosnahan, S.M and Suttles, S.E., 2017, Water level measurements collected in West Falmouth Harbor, MA, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7K936D0.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real Time Kinematic GPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Pressure | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | WFAL_17 pressure data (pressure data from 2 sites in west Falmouth Harbor) |
