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Field Activity Details for field activity 1994-048-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): William J. Strahle

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover mooring #439 and deploy #448 on Stellwagen Bank.

Vehicle(s):

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1994-10-25

End Date: 1994-10-25

Equipment Used: Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Mooring recovered: 1 (#439 deployed FA 94019 WHITE HEATH Jul. 6-11, 1994). Mooring deployed: 1 (#448 recovered FA 95029 WHITE HEATH Apr. 10, 1995).

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: No cruise report; information derived from mooring log.

Location:

Stellwagen Bank, Massachusetts Bay, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.3 South: 42.2 West: -70.2 East: -70.15

Platform(s):

photo of White Heath
White Heath

Publications

Bothner, M.H., and Butman, Bradford (eds.), 2007, Processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminated sediments in the coastal ocean—Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1302, 89 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1302.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
1994-048-FA-OM-001 (Stellwagen mooring data)

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