Other ID: 86-2
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Bradford Butman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Dave Aubrey, WHOI
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Visual Identification: Ground Truthing
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover mooring #308 in Vineyard Sound. Recover two tripods (#305 and 306) and one subsurface mooring (#307) in Cape Cod Bay. Recover TDR instrument for Aubrey in Plymouth Harbor.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 1986-04-28
End Date: 1986-04-30
Equipment Used: Bottom platform, Mooring tripod
Information to be Derived: Time series data;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings recovered: 4 (#305, 306 and 307 all deployed FA 86034 ASTERIAS Feb. 10-14, 1986; #308 deployed FA 86001 ASTERIAS Feb. 25, 1986).
Staff: John Moody, William J. Strahle, Joseph S. Newell, John Larson
Affiliate Staff:
WHOI: Wayne Spencer (Legs 2 and 3)
Peter Zeeb (Legs 2 and 3)
Notes: This is a joint project with Dave Aubrey at WHOI designed to investigate sediment movement at two potential dredge spoil disposal areas in Cape Cod Bay. Original Center People field contained: John Moody (Legs 2 and 3); William Strahle (Legs 1, 2 and 3) John Larson (Legs 1, 2 and 3); Joseph Newell (Legs 1, 2 and 3).
Location:
Vineyard Sound, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.00440721 | South: 41.43243113 | West: -70.78886759 | East: -70.2242806 |
Platform(s):
 Asterias |
Warner, J.C., Butman, B., and Dalyander, P. S., 2008, Storm-driven sediment transport in Massachusetts Bay: Continental Shelf Research, v. 28 no. 2, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.08.008.
Warner, J.C., Sherwood, Christopher R., Signell, Richard P., Harris, Courtney K., and Arango, Hernan G., 2008, Development of a three-dimensional, regional, coupled wave, current, and sediment-transport model: Computers and Geosciences, v. 34 no. 10, doi: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.012.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, site locations, daily narrative, tabulated information. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1986-005-FA-OM-001 (Cape Cod bay mooring data) |
| Mooring tripod | --- | Ground Truthing |
