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Field Activity Details for field activity 2009-060-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems (LQ00G3S)

Principal Investigator(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Neil Kamal Ganju

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Methane, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy ADCP at channel entrance and perform tidal-cycle studies to estimate fluxes of water and nutrients.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: West Falmouth Harbor, MA

End Port/Location: West Falmouth Harbor, MA

Start Date: 2009-08-04

End Date: 2009-08-04

Equipment Used: Current, Gas sampler, GPS - Handheld, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: time series data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Deployed instrument (8/4/09), checked instrument battery and mount (8/6/09).

Staff: Jonathan Borden, Neil Kamal Ganju, Christopher Sherwood

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Neil Ganju: hydrodynamic measurements, modeling; Chris Sherwood: hydrodynamic measurements, modeling; Jon Borden: deployment of acoustics; Sandy Baldwin: deployment of acoustics.
Project = National Community Sediment Transport: Pilot Model Applications, National Community Sediment Transport: Pilot Model Applications

Location:

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.60832 South: 41.5985 West: -70.6489 East: -70.63754

Platform(s):

photo of Dock
Dock

Publications

Ganju, N.K., Dickhudt, P.J., Thomas, J.A., Borden, J., Sherwood, C.R., Montgomery, E.T., Twomey, E.R., and Martini, M.A., 2011, Summary of oceanographic and water-quality measurements in West Falmouth Harbor and Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, 2009-2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1113, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111113.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Current --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Gas sampler --- Dissolved Oxygen
Gas Hydrates
Methane
GPS - Handheld --- Navigation
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
data from 2009-060-FA (All data from West Falmouth Harbor studies in summer 2009, 2010, 2012)

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