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Field Activity Details for field activity 1980-034-FA

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Other ID: 90

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bradford Butman

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy 10 moorings, 1 tripod, 2 buoys; recover 2 tripods, mooring, buoys; collect XBT, CTD, suspended sediment samples in and around Lydonia Canyon; collect bathymetry in canyon axis; collect benthic grabs.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1980-11-24

End Date: 1980-12-03

Equipment Used: XBT, CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, Niskin bottle, Van Veen grab sampler, Echosounder, Camera- deep sea, Northstar 6000 LORAN-C, 12 kHz, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Too rough to recover Grassle's tripod GBQ; 2 surface buoys at K left for recovery during Jan. 1981 cruise (OCNS 091, FA 81002). Moorings deployed: 12 (#205, 207, 208, 209, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, and 220 all recovered FA 81009 OCEANUS 95 Apr. 23 - May 6, 1981). Moorings recovered: 2 (#195 and 196 partial, deployed FA 80009 OCEANUS 81 May 23 - Jun. 1, 1980). XBT stations: 37; Surface salinity: 35; Bathmetry surveys at mooring stations: 5; Hydrographic stations: 38.

Staff: Bradford Butman, Mary E. Hastings, John Larson, Carol M. Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, William J. Strahle, Marlene Noble

Affiliate Staff:
Frank Musialowski; Andy Eliason - Eliason Data Services; Barry Allen and Ivors Britte - LDGO; Linda Philbin - WHOI

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman, Chief Scientist; John Larson, Frank Musialowski, Marlene Noble, Carol Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, Polly Shoukimas, William Strahle.
Project = Lydonia Canyon Sediment Dynamics, Lydonia Canyon Sediment Dynamics

Location:

Georges Bank, Lydonia Canyon, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.5 South: 40.25 West: -71.5 East: -67.4

Platform(s):

photo of Oceanus
Oceanus

Publications

Butman, B., 1988, North Atlantic Slope and Canyon Study—Volume 1, Executive summary: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-027-A, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr8827A.

Butman, B., and Conley, S.J., 1984, Lydonia Canyon experiment—data report for moored array deployment I, October 1980-April 1981: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-201, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr84201.

Butman, B., and Moody, J.A., 1984, Bathymetric map of Lydonia Canyon, U.S. Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous Field Studies Map 1710, https://doi.org/10.3133/mf1710.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, daily narrative, station list with data acquired at each station, trackmaps and mooring location map, cross-sections with sediment trap locations, schematics of mooorings and the bridge log of navigation.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
XBT --- Temperature
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl --- CTD
Niskin bottle --- Chemistry
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
Echosounder --- Single Beam
1980-034-FA-BA-001 (Digital tape of BT data: inv. # 0941.)
Camera- deep sea --- Photo
1980-034-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 215; 19801201-19810429)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C --- Navigation
1980-034-FA-LN-001-01 (Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape)
12 kHz --- Single Beam
1980-034-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines )
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
1980-034-FA-OM-002 (Lydonia canyon mooring data)
1980-034-FA-OM-001 (Georges Bank Sediment mooring data)

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