Other ID: W15-94
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):
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Current, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To recover/redeploy BASS and ADCP tripods and to collect sediment samples with the hydraulically damped corer and a Van Veen grab sampler at 4 stations.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Boston, MA
End Port/Location: Boston, MA
Start Date: 1994-06-07
End Date: 1994-06-08
Equipment Used: Slow corer, DGPS, ADCP, Van Veen grab sampler, Camera- deep sea, Loran-C, 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: Moorings recovered: 3 (#430 and 431 both deployed WHITE HEATH FA 94040 Feb. 15-17, 1994; and #438 deployed WHITE HEATH FA 94035 Apr. 4, 1994). Moorings deployed: 2 (#440 and 441 recovered FA 94015 WHITE HEATH Oct. 4-5, 1994). Cores and grabs from Station 2 and Station 3.
Staff: Michael Bothner, Michael Casso, Carrie Friedman, Peter W. Gill, Marinna Martini, Joseph S. Newell, Carol M. Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, William J. Strahle
Affiliate Staff:
Eric Brooks - NAGT; Rob Wheatcroft
Jerry Fries - WHOI; Wendy Leo
Peter Ralston - MWRA
Notes: Project = Circ. and Pollutant Transport in MA Coastal Waters, Circ. and Pollutant Transport in MA Coastal Waters
Information from Foghorn: BASS tripod/subsurface mooring, ADCP tripod, hydraulically damped corer and Van Veen grab sampler;LNB Boston: 42d22.54N, 70d47.22W. Tripod 4301 (Midas). LNB Boston: 42d22.44N, 70d56.97W. Subsurface Mooring 4312 (VMCM). LNB Boston: 42d22.50N, 70d47.10W. Tripod 4381 (ADCP).;
Location:
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.4 | South: 42.35 | West: -70.8 | East: -70.75 |
Platform(s):
 White Heath |
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.
Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., and Lang, W.N., 2008, Time-series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay, version 2, 1989 - 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 265, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds265.
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.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, cruise description, location map, schematic of deployment, tabulated information and narrative, sample locations. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slow corer | --- | Geology | |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| ADCP | --- | Current | |
| Van Veen grab sampler | --- | Geology | |
| Camera- deep sea | --- | Photo | 1994-022-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 440; 19940607-19941004) |
| Loran-C | --- | Navigation | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1994-022-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data) |
