Field Activity 1970-008-FA

Identifier 1970-008-FA
Alternate names 70-20
Purpose Sampling; time series oceanographic measurements; seismic profiling.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Samples: 16; Seismics: 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiles.
Comments Project = MA DPW Co-op, MA DPW Co-op
Platform
Verrill, A. E.
65 feet
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1970-07-20
End (port not specified) 1970-07-24
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -70.93322754
East -70.62659686
North 42.53531797
South 42.28611418

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David Folger
Crew members
Bradford Butman
Scientist, Staff
Chuck O'Hara
Scientist, Staff
David Folger
Scientist, Staff
Robert N. Oldale
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff R. Burrows

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics
Data type: Gravity, CTD, Current, Temperature, Navigation, Chemistry, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Geodyne current meter Current (no data reported)
Seabed drifters Current (no data reported)
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature (no data reported)
Niskin bottle Chemistry (no data reported)
Surface water temperature Temperature (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology 1
Loran-A Navigation (no data reported)
Raytheon radar Navigation (no data reported)
Visual navigation Navigation (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1970-008-FA-SC-001 Van Veen grab sampler GRAB, UNKNOWN samples Brian Buczkowski
1970-008-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1970-008-FA-SE-002 3.5 kHz microfilm of SMALL CAN Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity