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Field Activity Details for field activity 2007-012-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): Michael Bothner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Obtain cores of bottom sediment for pilot study on mercury deposition.

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Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 2007-02-12

End Date: 2007-02-16

Equipment Used: Gravity corer, Digital camera, GPS - Handheld

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: During the period 2/12/07 - 2/16/07, we collected 7 cores from Oyster Pond, and 3 cores from Deep Pond. Details of positions and core lengths are recorded in files in folder Cape Cod Cores 2007 on Michael Casso's hard drive. Ice thickness was between 5 and 7 inches. Safety equipment included buoyant surfboard, drysuits, life jackets, ice claws, ice anchors, rope, and plywood slabs to distribute weight near an opened hole. Someone was on or close to shore to phone in a problem if the ice failed. An ice saw was purchased after this sampling trip to minimize shock to the ice while making a hole big enough to accommodate the corer. No problems were encountered.

Staff: Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Michael Bothner, Brian Buczkowski, Michael Casso, Richard Rendigs

Affiliate Staff:
Chad Hammerschmidt
WHOI
core collection and MeHg analysis

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Mike Bothner (chief scientist); Rick Rendigs, Michael Casso, Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Brian Buczkowski (field and lab assistants).

Location:

Oyster Pond, Deep Pond (aka Punch Bowl), Falmouth, Massachusetts, United States, North America;

Boundaries
North: 41.54673 South: 41.53775 West: -70.6448 East: -70.63402

Platform(s):

photo of On Ice
On Ice

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Gravity corer --- Geology
Digital camera --- Photo
2007-012-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations)
GPS - Handheld --- Navigation

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