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

Field Activity 2017-018-FA

Identifier 2017-018-FA
Purpose Deploy 2 tide gauges to complement mapping, 1094 & 1095
Location West Falmouth Harbor, Massachusetts,United States
Summary the sensors were deployed and collected data for 2+ months
Info derived water surface elevations
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-027-FA. The tide gauges will be Mooring IDs 1094 and 1095. Also see 2017-024-FA and 2017-041-FA. The data from this deployment is at: https://doi.org/10.5066/F7K936D0
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start West Falmouth, MA 2017-04-19
End West Falmouth, MA 2017-05-05
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.6555
East -70.63402176
North 41.61076464
South 41.5974726

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Steven E Suttles
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Eric D. Marsjanik
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Christopher R Sherwood
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Melanie Hayn , MBL/Cornell

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Real Time Kinematic GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Pressure Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
WFAL_17 pressure data Pressure pressure data from 2 sites in west Falmouth Harbor Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity