Other ID: MH41B-03
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Borden
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography), Visual Identification: Ground Truthing, Sampling: Geology, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy Scituate tripod and subsurface mooring, recover NOPP surface mooring, and recover Scituate tripod and subsurface mooring.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Scituate, MA
End Port/Location: Scituate, MA
Start Date: 2003-04-23
End Date: 2003-04-23
Equipment Used: DGPS, Bottom platform, Mooring tripod, Sediment traps, Temperature and salinity, Pressure, Turbidity, Current
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Moorings deployed: 2 (#709 and 710 both recovered FA 03043 MARCUS HANNA Sep. 24-25, 2003). Moorings recovered: 1 (#698 deployed FA 02046 MARCUS HANNA Oct. 22-25, 2002). NOPP Buoy recovered. Tripod (#688) did not release.
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Brian Buczkowski, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Michael Casso
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Jonathan Borden - Deck Boss; Marinna Martini - Deck; Brian Buczkowski - Deck; Richard Rendigs - Honjo Traps, Deck; Michael Casso - Sediment Traps, Deck.
Project = MWRA - Massachusetts Bay Time Series, MWRA - Massachusetts Bay Time Series
Location:
Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.25 | South: 42.15 | West: -70.7 | East: -70.6 |
Platform(s):
 Christopher Andrew |
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 2003-028-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data) |
| Mooring tripod | --- | Ground Truthing | |
| Sediment traps | --- | Geology | |
| Temperature and salinity | --- | CTD Temperature | |
| Pressure | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Turbidity | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Current | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) |
