Other ID: MH40-02
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, Geochemical: Experiments (geochemical), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Exchange moorings at the Boston B Buoy.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: USCG Base, Boston, MA
End Port/Location: USCG Base, Boston, MA
Start Date: 2002-10-22
End Date: 2002-10-25
Equipment Used: Oxygen profiling system from Sayles, Benthic Chambers, DGPS, Slow corer, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Sediment samples were collected at Stations 3 and 2. Moorings deployed: 4 (#696 recovered FA 03020 CONNECTICUT Mar. 29-21, 2003; #697 and 699 recovered FA 03031 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW May 21-23, 2003; #698 recovered FA 03028 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Apr. 23, 2003). Moorings recovered: 6 (#687 (NOPP) deployed FA 02044 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Apr. 8, 2002; #689, 690, 691 and 692 all deployed FA 02045 MARCUS HANNA May 21-22, 2002; #693A deployed FA 02056 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Sep. 19, 2002). Divers were not needed.
Staff: P. Soupy Alexander, Sandy Baldwin, Jonathan Borden, Michael Bothner, Brian Buczkowski, Michael Casso, Marinna Martini, Joseph S. Newell, Andree Ramsey, Richard Rendigs
Affiliate Staff:
Timothy McCobb (WRD Northborough); William Martin and Joanne Goudreau (WHOI Chemistry Dept.) - deployment of oxygen profiler and benthic chambers
Notes: Original Center People field contained: At sea: Patricia Soupy Alexander, Sandy Baldwin, Jonathan Borden*, Mike Bothner, Brian Buczkowski*, Michael Casso, Marinna Martini*, Timothy McCobb (WRD Northborough), Richard Rendigs, and Andree Ramsey*. Mob and de-mob: Joseph Newell*. Asterisk (*) denotes acct. 67013; otherwise acct. 67011.
Project = The Massachusetts Bay Experiment, The Massachusetts Bay Experiment
Information from Foghorn: Oxygen profiler and benthic chambers provided by WHOI; Oxygen profiling in sediments;
Location:
Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.4 | South: 42.08333 | West: -70.8333 | East: -70.63333 |
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.
Bothner, M.H., Butman, B., and Casso, M.A., 2010, Review of oceanographic and geochemical data collected in Massachusetts Bay during a large discharge of total suspended solids from Boston’s sewage-treatment system and ocean outfall in August 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1050, 11 p., at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101050.
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.
Kalnejais, L.H., Martin, William R., Signell, Richard P., and Bothner, Michael H., 2007, Role of sediment resuspension in the remobilization of particulate-phase metals from coastal sediments: Environmental Science and Technology, v. 41 no. 7, doi: 10.1021/es061770z.
Martini, M., Butman, Bradford, and Mickelson, Michael J., 2007, Long-term performance of Aanderaa Optodes and Sea-Bird SBE-43 dissolved-oxygen sensors bottom mounted at 32 m in Massachusetts Bay: Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, v. 24 no. 11, URL: http://ams.allenpress.com/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1175%2FJTECH2078.1.
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 | |
| Benthic Chambers | --- | Experiments (geochemical) | |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Slow corer | --- | Geology | 2002-046-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples) |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 2002-046-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data) |
