Field Activity 2015-058-FA

Identifier 2015-058-FA
Purpose Recover and redeploy SEACATS and transmissometers at University of Maine Ocean Observing System (UMOOS) Site A and Site M. Site A - recover mooring 1044; Site A - deploy mooring 1055; Site M - deploy mooring 1056. Clean transmissometers at sites B (mooring 1045) and I (mooring 1047)
Location Gulf of Maine
Summary This was a cruise to service and deploy USGS near-bottom instruments on University of Maine moorings in the Gulf of Maine. One mooring was recovered and redeployed with new instruments (Site A, new mooring number); one recovered, cleaned, and redeployed with same instruments (Site I, same mooring number); one deployed with new instruments (Site M, new mooring number).
Info derived Temperature, salinity, light transmission
Comments UMOOS subsurface mooring
Projects
Platform
Connecticut
Length, molded: 90 feet; Beam: 26 feet.
Itinerary
Start Groton, CT 2015-10-25
End Groton, CT 2015-11-04
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -70.8234
East -67.48348563
North 43.60041624
South 42.44119437

Personnel

Organization
Other(Other)
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Bradford Butman
Specialist, Information
Ellyn Montgomery
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Neal Pettigrew, University of Maine; John Wallinga, University of Maine

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Mooring (physical oceanography), Biology Monitoring, Geochemical Monitoring (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity