Field Activity 2009-084-FA

Identifier 2009-084-FA
Purpose Resurvey methane-charged bottom features in lake, better constrain bathymetry, locate methane emissions through bubble streams in water column, and conduct sonar imaging of lake bottom with particular focus on locating pockmark-type features.
Location Upper Mystic Lake, Medford, Massachusetts, United States, North America;
Summary Collected Chirp 424, sonar images, and images of seeps in water column with GPS navigation.
Comments - This activity is based on Field Activity 09042. Project = High-Latitude Climate-Hydrates Interactions - Dept. of Energy, High-Latitude Climate-Hydrates Interactions - Dept. of Energy
Platform
Knob
16 feet
Itinerary
Start Winchester Boat Club, Winchester, MA 2009-12-02
End Winchester Boat Club, Winchester, MA 2009-12-02
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -71.1556
East -71.1412
North 42.4465
South 42.4218

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Carolyn Ruppel
Crew members
Carolyn Ruppel
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Carolyn Ruppel
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Harry Hemond - MIT
Affiliate staff Ben Scandella, MIT

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
EdgeTech 424 chirp sub-bottom profiler Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Humminbird fishfinder Single Beam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity