1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
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Field Activity 1991-001-FA

Identifier 1991-001-FA
Alternate names 231
Purpose Recover surface and subsurface moorings at 7 locations in Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays. The moored array is part of a study of coastal circulation and sediment transport.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Stellwagen Basin, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Moorings recovered: 4 (#352, 353, 354 and 355, all deployed FA 90035 MARLIN Sep. 11-13, 1990).
Info derived Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations;
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Related activities
1990-035-FA: Deployment-recovery
Platform
Oceanus
Length 177 feet; beam 33 feet; draft 17.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1991-01-14
End Woods Hole, MA 1991-01-15
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.62
East -70.24
North 42.53
South 42.1

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William J. Strahle
Crew members
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Banks, Kendall
Scientist, Staff
Parmenter, Carol M.
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
Newell, Joseph S.
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Jim Irish - UNH
Affiliate staff Jim Irish, Ken Morey, Woody Lee, Tom Sheehy, and Elliot Rushton - UNH; David Nergaard - EG&G

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Time Series
Data type: Navigation, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, tabulated information, pre-cruise report indicating objectives and mooring locations, map of mooring locations.

Moorings

RCV:352,353,354,355; DEP:;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1991-001-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform Mass Bay Circulation mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity