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Field Activity Details for field activity 2000-048-FA

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Other ID: IB A-48-00-MA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Borden

Affiliate Investigator(s): Dan Frye - WHOI

Information Specialist(s): PARTNER

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy NOPP Tripod and Mooring with WHOI; recover USGS Tripod #593 that failed to respond in Feb. USGS divers will be utilized.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Scituate, MA

End Port/Location: Scituate, MA

Start Date: 2000-03-28

End Date: 2000-03-29

Equipment Used: DGPS, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Mooring deployed: 1 (#615 recovered FA 00003 MARCUS HANNA May 9-10, 2000). Mooring recovered: 1 (#593 deployed FA 99009 MARCUS HANNA Sep. 22, 1999).

Staff: Jonathan Borden, Richard Rendigs

Affiliate Staff:
Lary Ball - WHOI
Jonathan Ware - WHOI
Paul Bouchard - WHOI

Notes: This is a joint cruise, concerning our involvement with the NOPP Acoustic Modem Project. We will also be using the time to recover our Scituate Tripod that did not respond during the Feb. turnaround. Divers will be used for this recovery. Data Curator: WHOI.
Project = NOPP, NOPP

Location:

Scituate, Masschusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.2 South: 42.15 West: -70.65 East: -70.6

Platform(s):

photo of Christopher Andrew
Christopher Andrew

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.

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.

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
2000-048-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data)

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