Other ID: PASTA Legs 2-3
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s): Chuck Nittrouer, University of Washington
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover EuroSTRATAFORM moorings and tripods; perform sidescan-sonar surveys.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Ravenna, Italy
End Port/Location: Ravenna, Italy
Start Date: 2003-05-26
End Date: 2003-06-03
Equipment Used: Video camera - deep sea, Temperature and salinity, Pressure, Turbidity, Digital camera, Current
Information to be Derived: Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations; Sea floor map;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Recovered Moorings: 3 (#711, 712, and 713 all deployed FA 03011 SEWARD JOHNSON II Feb. 11-22, 2003). Sidescan sonar: These data returned to USGS-Woods Hole for processing.
Staff: Richard Rendigs, Christopher Sherwood, Charles Worley
Affiliate Staff:
Charles Nittrouer - UWA
Coordinator; Joanne Ferreira
Engineer - USGS-Menlo Park; Harold Williams - USGS-Menlo Park; BIO/Dalhousie; ISMAR; ICM; WHOI
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Christopher Sherwood, Scientist; Richard Rendigs, Diver; Charles Worley, Diver and Sidescan operator.
Project = EuroSTRATAFORM, EuroSTRATAFORM
Location:
Chienti River, Pescara, Adriatic Sea, Italy, Mediterranean Sea, Europe, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 45.5 | South: 41.75 | West: 12.2 | East: 16.25 |
Platform(s):
 Seward Johnson II |
Carniel, S., Warner, John C., Chiggiato, Jacopo, and Sclavo, Mauro, 2009, Investigating the impact of surface wave breaking on modeling the trajectories of drifters in the northern Adriatic Sea during a wind-storm event: Ocean Modelling, v. 30 no. 2-3, doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2009.07.001.
Montgomery, E., Sherwood, C, 2013, Studying seafloor bedforms using autonomous stationary imaging and profiling sonars: OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE Proceedings Paper, pp. 1–7, URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6741159&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst.
Sherwood, C.R., Book, Jeffrey W., Carniel, Sandro, Cavaleri, Luigi, Chiggiato, Jacopo, Das, Himangshu, Doyle, James D., Harris, Courtney K., Niedoroda, Alan W., Perkins, Henry, Poulain, Pierre-Marie, Pullen, Julie, Reed, Christopher W., Russo, Aniello, Sclavo, Mauro, Signell, Richard P., Traykovski, Peter, and Warner, John C., 2004, Sediment dynamics in the Adriatic Sea investigated with coupled models: Oceanography, v. 17 no. 4, URL: http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/sediment-dynamics-in-the-adriatic-sea-investigated-withcoupledmodels.
Signell, R.P., Carniel, Sandro, Chiggiato, Jacopo, Janekovic, Ivica, Pullen, Julie, and Sherwood, Christopher R., 2008, Collaboration tools and techniques for large model datasets: Journal of Marine Systems, v. 69 no. 1-2, doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2007.02.013.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Video camera - deep sea | --- | Video | |
| Temperature and salinity | --- | CTD Temperature | |
| Pressure | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Turbidity | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | |
| Digital camera | --- | Photo | 2003-012-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations) |
| Current | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 2003-012-FA-OM-001 (mooring data) |
