Field Activity 1976-047-FA

Identifier 1976-047-FA
Alternate names OC 17
Purpose Recover 3 and deploy 3 tripods and floats to monitor sediment transport; obtain XBTs to position the shelf-slope water front; collect water samples for suspended sediment analyses.
Location mid-Atlantic Bight, Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Tripod #116 was dragged 4 miles and damaged approximately 6 days after deployment; however, some good data were obtained. See cruise report for full description. Deployed: 1 current meter (#118 recovered FA 77023 OCEANUS 29 July 6-13, 1977); Deployed: 2 tripods (#119 and 120 both recovered FA 77009 WHITEFOOT March 8 - Apr. 17, 1977); Recovered: 1 current meter (#115 deployed FA 76031 OCEANUS 13 Aug. 12-24, 1976); Recovered: 2 tripods (#116 and 117 both deployed FA 76044 WHITEFOOT Oct. 26-31, 1976); XBT profiles: 83; Transmissometer profiles: 22; Water samples (salinity): 95; Water samples (suspended matter): 65.
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman - Ch. Sci.; Randy Fabro, Bill Jaworski, John Mclean, Gary Prisby, William Strahle. Project = Sediment Dynamics, Sediment Dynamics
Platform
Oceanus
Length 177 feet; beam 33 feet; draft 17.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1976-12-03
End Woods Hole, MA 1976-12-10
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -73.6
East -67.25
North 41
South 38.4

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members
Bradford Butman
Scientist, Staff
Jaworski, William
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Randy Fabro, John Mclean, Gary Prisby; Bob Beauchamp - BLM; David Stremaitis - ERCO; John Milliman, Carol Parmenter, Lois Toner, John Vermersch - WHOI

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Time Series
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition. Includes trackmaps, station locations navigation table with information about what data were acquired at each station.
Cruise report WHOI cruise report with trackmap and personnel list.

Moorings

RCV: 115, 116, 117; DEP: 118, 119, 120;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Camera- deep sea Photo 1
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1976-047-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 120; 19761205-19770318 Nancy K. Soderberg
1976-047-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform MAB mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity