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Field Activity Details for field activity 1984-004-FA

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Other ID: 149

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): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: This cruise was part of a continuing study of currents and sediment transport on the Continental Slope. The major objectives of the cruise were: 1) to recover Slope Array II (three subsurface moorings at stations SA, SE, and SF, and a bottom tripod at T); 2) to deploy Slope Array III (five subsurface moorings at stations SA, SE, SF, SG, and SH, and one bottom tripod at station T); 3) to recover and redeploy four surface guard buoys at stations SF and T; and 4) to conduct a hydrographic survey across the outer shelf and upper slope between 68 and 71 degrees W.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1984-03-12

End Date: 1984-03-19

Equipment Used: Magnetometer (wh), CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl, Camera- deep sea, Northstar 6000 LORAN-C, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings deployed: 6 (#277, 278, 279, 280, 281, and 282 recovered FA 84024 OCEANUS 159 Nov. 13-24, 1984). Moorings recovered: 4 (#273, 274, 275, and 276, all deployed FA 83011 OCEANUS 149 Oct. 17-24, 1983). All mooring work was completed as planned. Bad weather curtailed mooring operations for one full day and made work difficult during most of the cruise. A moderate CTD survey was completed. The current meter on the bottom tripod system failed after about 3 weeks, probably because of a bad connecting cable. To assure near-bottom current data, an additional subsurface mooring was deployed at station T on OCEANUS cruise 154 by M. Briscoe on May 16, 1984. Hydrography: CTD: 18; XBT: 18; Salinity: 51; Suspended sediment oxygen: 15; Suspended sediment nutrients: 34.

Staff: Michael Bothner, Bradford Butman, Mary E. Hastings, Barry Irwin, Joseph S. Newell, Carol M. Parmenter, Lawrence Poppe, William J. Strahle

Affiliate Staff:
Jay Pulliam
Cathy O'Dell; Andrew Eliason (Eliason Data Service)

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman, Mike Bothner, Jay Pulliam, Cathy O'Dell, Joseph Newell, Carol Parmenter, Lawrence Poppe, Barry Irwin, Mary Polly Shoukimas, William Strahle.
Project = Dynamics of Currents and Sediment Transport on the Continental Shelf and Slope, Dynamics of Currents and Sediment Transport on the Continental Shelf and Slope

Location:

southern New England Shelf and slope, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 40.18333 South: 39.75 West: -71 East: -68

Platform(s):

photo of Oceanus
Oceanus

Publications

Butman, B., Moody, J.A., and Conley, S.J., 1987, Hydrography of the New England shelf and slope; data report for R/V Oceanus Cruise 149, March 12-19, 1984: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-179, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr87179.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, trackcharts, station locations, deck log and Loran log.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Magnetometer (wh) --- Magnetics
1984-004-FA-GP-001 (Digital tape of MG data: inv. # 1018.)
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl --- CTD
1984-004-FA-OM-002 (Digital tapes of CTD STATION DATA.)
Camera- deep sea --- Photo
1984-004-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 280; 19840316-19841118)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C --- Navigation
1984-004-FA-LN-001 (Digital tapes of NV data: inv. # 2904 thru 2906.)
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
1984-004-FA-OM-001 (NE slope mooring data)

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