| Identifier | 1979-002-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 56 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Deploy 3 tripods (#168, 169), 3 current moorings (7 instruments, #172) and buoy; recover 5 tripod systems (#155, 156, 158, 160) and 5 current moorings (#165, 8 instruments); and obtain gravity cores. | ||||||||
| Location | mid-Atlantic shelf, Wilmington Canyon, Mud Patch, Great South Channel, Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Recovered release and anchor; current meter #161 missing. Recovered moorings: 12 (#155, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161 [partial recovery, current meter missing], 163, and 165, all deployed FA 78031 ATLANTIS II 103 Sep. 28 - Oct. 5, 1978; #166 and 167 deployed FA 78035 WHITEFOOT Oct. 30 - Nov. 2, 1978; #169 and 173 both deployed FA 79002 OCEANUS 56 Mar. 6-15, 1979). Deployed moorings: 6 (#168 [no recovery information]; 169 [grapple recovery on deploying cruise]; 170 [no recovery information]; 171 and 172 both recovered FA 79021 OCEANUS 67 Aug. 6-13, 1979; 173 [recovered on deploying cruise]). | ||||||||
| Info derived | Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations; | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman - Chief Scientist; Cynthia Bryden, Allen Hemberger, Nicholas Lefteriou, Marlene Noble, Stephanie Pfirman, Richard Rendigs, Mary Polly Shoukimas, Dave Twichell. Project = Sediment Dynamics, Sediment Dynamics | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Bradford Butman | ||||||||||||
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| Affiliate staff | Allen Hemberger, Nicholas Nick Lefteriou; USGS-Corpus Christi: Chuck Stelting, John West; Eliason Data Services: Andy Eliason |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar, Time Series |
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| Data type: | CTD, Photo, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sidescan, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography) |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's daily log of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, mooring deployment and recovery positions, grab sample locations, track map of sidescan sonar and 12 kHz echosounding surveys, and list of hydrographic stations including XBT, water samples, and CTD. |
| Cruise report | WHOI cruise report including trackmaps. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Plessey CTD | CTD | (no data reported) | |
| Camera- deep sea | Photo | 1 | |
| Northstar 6000 LORAN-C | Navigation | 2 | |
| 12 kHz | Single Beam | 1 | |
| ORE sidescan | Sidescan | 2 | |
| Bottom platform | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1 | |
| Smith-MacIntyre grab | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1979-002-FA-PH-001 | Camera- deep sea | film collection of TRIPOD 170; 19790307-19790700 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-LN-001 | Northstar 6000 LORAN-C | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79002 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-LN-002 | Northstar 6000 LORAN-C | Digital tape(s) of NV, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-SE-001 | 12 kHz | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-SO-001 | ORE sidescan | Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-SO-002 | ORE sidescan | microfilm of | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1979-002-FA-OM-001 | Bottom platform | MAB mooring data | Ellyn Montgomery |
