Field Activity 1994-020-FA

Identifier 1994-020-FA
Purpose Retrieve cobbles and hard substrates for analysis and use as monitor of water column contaminant. Seek areas of exposed hard-substrates.
Location Boston Harbor, President Roads, north slope of Spectacle Island, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Recovered materials will be analyzed by Manheim and German collaborators in Kiel, in conjunction with joint German environmental monitoring program.
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis;
Comments Prepared from pre-field activity report only. Original Center People field contained: Frank Manheim - geochemist, Dann Blackwood - diver and underwater photographer. Project = Boston Harbor Contaminated Sediment Database, Boston Harbor Contaminated Sediment Database
Platform
Venture
Scalloper, Gloucester, Ma
Itinerary
Start Hingham Yacht Club, Hingham, MA 1994-06-22
End Hingham Yacht Club, Hingham, MA 1994-06-22
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -71
East -70.95
North 42.35
South 42.3

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Dann S BlackwoodFrank T. Manheim
Crew members
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Frank T. Manheim
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Peter Rosen - Northeastern Univ., Lary Ball - WHOI

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Imagery
Data type: Biology, Chemistry, Geology, Photo

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SCUBA Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Nikonos camera Photo (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity