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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-059-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood

Affiliate Investigator(s): Malcolm Scully, WHOI John Trowbridge, WHOI

Information Specialist(s): Patrick Dickhudt

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy bottom platforms and NIMBBLEs for NSF Inner Shelf Study

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2014-10-08

End Date: 2014-10-09

Equipment Used: DGPS, Grab sampler, Bottom platform, Current

Information to be Derived: Bottom stress

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Sandra Brosnahan, Patrick Dickhudt, Marinna Martini, Christopher Sherwood

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-021-FA.

Field work has been postponed due to weather until at least 8 Oct.

Location:

Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Massachusetts

Boundaries
North: 41.3564774 South: 41.25294098 West: -70.7865 East: -70.3989094

Platform(s):

photo of Connecticut
Connecticut

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Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Current --- Mooring (physical oceanography)

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