This cruise will consist of field operations in support of a Nantucket Shoals flux experiment being conducted jointly by WHOI, USGS, NMFS, and Univ. New Hampshire. Cruise objectives include: recover acoustically released bottom pressure gauges at sites N1, N2, N4, and N5; reset gauges at original positions, with the exception of N2 gauge which is to be reset south of Montauk Point; recover and reset a subsurface current meter mooring at N3; recover two surface moorings at N2 and reset one; make at least one CTD section along the mooring track; and attempt to recover a USGS mooring by dragging 10 miles northeast of N2. Deploy mooring 181 on Georges Bank.
Location
Nantucket Shoals and Georges Bank areas, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary
USGS Mooring 181 (previously deployed) was located so that surface VACM could be added. Mooring deployed: 1 (#181 partial, recovered FA 79035 OCEANUS 77, Dec. 13-20, 1979).
WHOI: John Vermersch, Jr., Robert Beardsley; Univ. New Hampshire: Wendell Brown, James Irish, Edward LaCoursiere, Mark Woodbury, Richard Trask, Jonathan Oakes, Karen Leavitt
