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

Field Activity 2010-087-FA

Identifier 2010-087-FA
Purpose Conduct pseudo-3D survey of methane seep field in deepwater part of lake in advance of MIT ROV deployment & diver-deployed lander installation for physics/chemistry studies (to be carried out in early 2011).
Location Upper Mystic Lake, border of Arlington/Medford/Winchester, Massachusetts, United States, North America;
Summary Reoccupied sites of former seeps. Filled in areas needed to complete bathymetric map. Conducted high resolution survey of deep basin where we had previously recognized numerous seeps.
Platform
Knob
16 feet
Itinerary
Start Winchester Boat Club 2010-10-13
End Winchester Boat Club 2010-10-13
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -71.1551
East -71.143
North 42.44214
South 42.43106

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Navigation, Chemistry, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
HYPACK Navigation (no data reported)
Humminbird fishfinder Single Beam (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
EdgeTech 424 chirp sub-bottom profiler Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
SCUBA Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity