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Field Activity Details for field activity 1994-020-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Frank T. Manheim, Dann Blackwood

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Imagery: Photo

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Retrieve cobbles and hard substrates for analysis and use as monitor of water column contaminant. Seek areas of exposed hard-substrates.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Hingham Yacht Club, Hingham, MA

End Port/Location: Hingham Yacht Club, Hingham, MA

Start Date: 1994-06-22

End Date: 1994-06-22

Equipment Used: SCUBA, Nikonos camera

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Recovered materials will be analyzed by Manheim and German collaborators in Kiel, in conjunction with joint German environmental monitoring program.

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Frank T. Manheim

Affiliate Staff:
Peter Rosen - Northeastern Univ.
Lary Ball - WHOI

Notes: Prepared from pre-field activity report only. Original Center People field contained: Frank Manheim - geochemist, Dann Blackwood - diver and underwater photographer.
Project = Boston Harbor Contaminated Sediment Database, Boston Harbor Contaminated Sediment Database

Location:

Boston Harbor, President Roads, north slope of Spectacle Island, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.35 South: 42.3 West: -71 East: -70.95

Platform(s):

photo of Venture
Venture

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SCUBA --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
Nikonos camera --- Photo

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