Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Barrier Evolution (MN00F1F)
Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Sherwood
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Ellyn Montgomery
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deploy nanopod (1081) off Sandwich TNB.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2016-12-17
End Date: 2016-12-17
Equipment Used: DGPS, Bottom platform
Information to be Derived: time series of currents, waves, pressure
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: None, this was a deployment.
Staff: Jonathan Borden, Sandra Brosnahan
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: This is the first of many entries for deployments at Town neck Beach in winter 2017.
Associated with 2016-052-FA, 2017-007-FA, 2017-001-FA, 2017-012-FA, 2017-013-FA, 2017-019-FA, 2017-025-FA, 2017-037-FA, 2017-040-FA.
The data for all is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7B27T6P.
Location:
Sandwich Town Neck Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.78503467 | South: 41.73478262 | West: -70.4908 | East: -70.42205817 |
Platform(s):
 Tioga |
Sherwood, C.R., Montgomery, E.T., Suttles, S.E. Marsjanik, E.D. and Brosnahan, S.M., 2017, Oceanographic, atmospheric and water-quality measurements Sandwich Town Neck Beach, Massachusetts, 2017, U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7B27T6P.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
| Bottom platform | --- | Mooring (physical oceanography) | sandwich2017 data from all platforms (An offshore platform 1081 was deployed for the entire winter. Pressure sensors were deployed on the beach during storms to record overwash events if they occurred.) |
