1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 1980-009-FA

Identifier 1980-009-FA
Alternate names 81
Purpose Recover 5 tripods and 4 current moorings; deploy 3 tripods and 3 current moorings; replace surface buoys; conduct CTDs and XBTs; obtain box cores and surface grabs; conduct preliminary sidescan surveys at Georges Bank sandwave area and head of Lydonia Canyon; conduct hydrographic and suspended sediment transects; and collect bathymetry in Lydonia and Oceanographer Canyons.
Location Mid-Atlantic Shelf, Great South Channel, southern flank Georges Bank, Oceanographer Canyon, Lydonia Canyon, Atlantic Continental Shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary CTD Stations: 43; XBTs: 49; Surface Salinity samples: 93; Navigation: 4 tapes; Box cores: 10; Grab samples: 6; Surface samples: 17. Moorings recovered: 9 (#183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189, 190, and 192, deployed FA 79035 OCEANUS 77 Dec. 13-20, 1979; and #191, deployed FA 80001 WHITEFOOT Jan. 3-23, 1980). Moorings deployed: 6 (#193, 194, 196, 197, and 198 all recovered FA 80030 OCEANUS 88 Oct. 23-31, 1980; and #195 recovered FA 80034 OCEANUS 90 Nov. 24 - Dec. 3, 1980).
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations; Time series data;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman, Chief Scientist; Mike Bothner, Cynthia Bryden, John Larson, Gerard McCarthy, Frank Musialowski, Marlene Noble, Carol Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, Dave Twichell.
Platform
Oceanus
Length 177 feet; beam 33 feet; draft 17.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1980-05-23
End Woods Hole, MA 1980-06-01
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -74
East -67.15
North 41.25
South 38.45

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members
Marlene A Noble
Scientist, Staff
Michael Bothner
Scientist, Staff
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
David C Twichell
Scientist, Staff
Bradford Butman
Scientist, Staff
Parmenter, Carol M.
Scientist, Staff
Larson, John
Scientist, Staff
Bryden, Cynthia
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Gerard McCarthy, Frank Musialowski; WHOI: Fred Grassle, Linda Porteous

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, daily log of work, mooring locations, surface sample locations, trackmaps including station locations, and a table of stations indicating what data was collected at each station.Additionally, the Loran Log is included.
Cruise report WHOI cruise report.

Moorings

RCV:183,184,185,186,187,189,190,191,192; DEP:193,194,195,196,197,198;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Echosounder Single Beam 1
Klein 531 sidescan Sidescan 2
XBT Temperature (no data reported)
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD 1
Smith-MacIntyre grab Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Box corer Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 2
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 2
Camera- deep sea Photo 1
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1980-009-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Digital tapes of BT data: inv. # 0940 and 2217. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-SO-001 Klein 531 sidescan Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-SO-002 Klein 531 sidescan microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-OM-001 CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl Digital tapes of CTD STATION DATA. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-LN-001-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Cruise track map. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-LN-002-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-SE-002 3.5 kHz analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 195; 19800527-19801202 Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-009-FA-OM-002 Bottom platform Georges Bank Sediment mooring data Ellyn Montgomery
1980-009-FA-OM-003 Bottom platform MAB mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity