Other ID: MH28-98
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Michael Bothner
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Frances Lightsom
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Exchange moorings off Boston and Scituate. Collect sediment cores and sediment-oxygen profiles near the future sewage outfall location. Collect water samples at the surface and bottom at the mooring site.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA
End Port/Location: Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA
Start Date: 1998-09-30
End Date: 1998-10-01
Equipment Used: Oxygen profiling system from Sayles, DGPS, Slow corer, Osprey camera system, Camera- deep sea, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: All moored instruments were turned around without incident. High quality cores were collected at each station. Corer performed as designed. Moorings recovered: 4 (#529, 530, 531 and 532, all deployed FA 98028 MARCUS HANNA Jun. 17-19, 1998). Moorings deployed: 4 (#540, 541, 542 and 543, all recovered FA 99007 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 10-11, 1999).
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Michael Bothner, Peter W. Gill, Roger Hubbell, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Christopher Sommerfield
Affiliate Staff:
Day 1: Lisa Borden; Lary Ball (WHOI - Diver). Day 2: Joanne Goudreau (WHOI - oxygen profiler).
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Day 1: Jonathan Borden, Lisa Borden, Mike Bothner, Peter Gill, Hubbell, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Chris Sommerfield. Day 2: Mike Bothner, Peter Gill, Hubbell, Richard Rendigs, Chris Sommerfield.
Project = Pollutant and Sediment Transport in Massachusetts Bay, Pollutant and Sediment Transport in Massachusetts Bay
Location:
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.6 | South: 42.15 | West: -70.8 | East: -70.6 |
Platform(s):
 Marcus Hanna |
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.
Butman, B., Alexander, P.S., and Bothner, M.H., 2004, Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay—June 1998 to May 1999: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 96, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds96.
Butman, B., Bothner, M.H., Alexander, P.S., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., and Strahle, W.S., 2004, Long-term oceanographic observations in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts; data report for 1989-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-74, Version 2.0, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74_v2.
Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., Borden, J., Casso, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., Hastings, M.E., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Montgomery, E.T., Rendigs, R.R., and Strahle, W.S., 2009, Long-term oceanographic observations in Massachusetts Bay, 1989 - 2006 (version 3): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 74, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74.
Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., and Lange, W.N., 2008, Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, 1996 - 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 266, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds266.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxygen profiling system from Sayles | --- | Dissolved Oxygen | |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Slow corer | --- | Geology | 1998-044-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples) |
| Osprey camera system | --- | Photo Video | |
| Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | 1998-044-FA-PH-002 (DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 1-256, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 257-519, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 520-779, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 780-788, ) 1998-044-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 540; 19980930-19990210) |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1998-044-FA-OM-002 (Western Mass Bay mooring data) 1998-044-FA-OM-001 (DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 1-256, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 257-519, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 520-779, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 780-788, ) |
