Other ID: MH33-00; IB H-3-00-MY
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): Michael Casso, Frances Lightsom
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recovery of moorings #611-615 and deployment of moorings #624-627 at the Boston Approach Buoy.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Boston, MA
End Port/Location: Boston, MA
Start Date: 2000-05-09
End Date: 2000-05-10
Equipment Used: Oxygen profiling system from Sayles, Camera- deep sea, Sediment traps, Slow corer, Digital camera, DGPS, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Diving was not needed on this cruise. All instruments were recovered without a problem. Deployed moorings 611-614. Moorings deployed: 4 (#624, 625, 626 and 627, all recovered FA 00004 MARCUS HANNA Sep. 26-28, 2000). Moorings recovered: 5 (#611, 612, 613 and 614 all deployed FA 00002 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 15-16, 2000; and #615 deployed FA 00048 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Mar. 28-29, 2000).
Staff: Robert Barton, Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Michael Bothner, Michael Casso, Jessica M. Cote, Courtney Harris, Roger Hubbell, Marinna Martini, Joseph S. Newell, Richard Rendigs, Sunita Shah
Affiliate Staff:
G. Begley; Joanne Goudreau - WHOI
Notes: Original Center People field contained: At-sea participants: Jonathan Borden, Mike Bothner, Dann Blackwood, Michael Casso, Jessica Cote, Roger Hubbell, Courtney Harris, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Sunita Shah, and G. Begley. Mob and demob: Joseph Newell, Robert Barton. Original Submitted By field contained: Mike Bothner; edited by Jessica Cote.
Project = Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Monitoring, Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Monitoring
Location:
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.39360068 | South: 42.15899218 | West: -70.84131484 | East: -70.63629445 |
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—May to September 1999; May to September 2000; and October 2001 to February 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 97, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds97.
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 | |
| Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | 2000-003-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 625; 20000509-20000926) 2000-003-FA-PH-002 (DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 1-230, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 231-460, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 461-711, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 711-749, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 760-790, ) |
| Sediment traps | --- | Geology | |
| Slow corer | --- | Geology | 2000-003-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples) |
| Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2000-003-FA-PH-003 (Deck photos of field activity operations) |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 2000-003-FA-OM-002 (Western Mass Bay mooring data) 2000-003-FA-OM-001 (DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 1-230, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 231-460, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 461-711, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 711-749, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 760-790, ) |
