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Field Activity Details for field activity 1999-009-FA

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Other ID: MH31-99

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): Frances Lightsom

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Exchange moorings at two locations and collect sediment cores at two long-term monitoring stations. We will also measure oxygen profiles at the sediment stations.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: U.S. Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA

End Port/Location: U.S. Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA

Start Date: 1999-09-21

End Date: 1999-09-22

Equipment Used: Oxygen profiling system from Sayles, Camera- deep sea, Van Veen grab sampler, Slow corer, DGPS, Bottom platform

Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Recovered moorings #569-572. Deployed moorings #590-593. Moorings recovered: 4 (#569, 570, 571 and 572 all deployed FA 99008 MARCUS HANNA May 11-12, 1999). Moorings deployed: 4 (#590, 591 and 592, recovered FA 00002 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 15-16, 2000; #593 recovered FA 00048 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Mar. 28-29, 2000).

Staff: Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Michael Bothner, Michael Casso, Jessica M. Cote, Brian Flynn, Marinna Martini, Ellen Mecray, Richard Rendigs

Affiliate Staff:
T. Elfers; Joanne Goudreau and Lary Ball - WHOI

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Jonathan Borden, Mike Bothner, Dann Blackwood, Jessica Cote, B. Flynn, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Michael Casso, T. Elfers, Ellen Mecray. Original Submitted By field contained: Mike Bothner; edited by J. Cote.
Project = Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Study, Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Study

Location:

Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 42.40013628 South: 42.37150931 West: -70.84713574 East: -70.79638954

Platform(s):

photo of Marcus Hanna
Marcus Hanna

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., Alexander, P.S., and Bothner, M.H., 2004, Time-Series photographs of the sea floor in western Massachusetts Bay—May to September 1999; May to September 2000; and October 2001 to February 2002: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 97, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds97.

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.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Oxygen profiling system from Sayles --- Dissolved Oxygen
Camera- deep sea --- Photo
1999-009-FA-PH-001 (film collection of TRIPOD 591; 19990921-20000215)
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
Slow corer --- Geology
1999-009-FA-SC-001 (CORE samples)
DGPS --- Navigation
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
1999-009-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data)

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