Field Activity 1980-034-FA

Identifier 1980-034-FA
Alternate names 90
Purpose Deploy 10 moorings, 1 tripod, 2 buoys; recover 2 tripods, mooring, buoys; collect XBT, CTD, suspended sediment samples in and around Lydonia Canyon; collect bathymetry in canyon axis; collect benthic grabs.
Location Georges Bank, Lydonia Canyon, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Too rough to recover Grassle's tripod GBQ; 2 surface buoys at K left for recovery during Jan. 1981 cruise (OCNS 091, FA 81002). Moorings deployed: 12 (#205, 207, 208, 209, 211, 214, 215, 216, 217, 218, 219, and 220 all recovered FA 81009 OCEANUS 95 Apr. 23 - May 6, 1981). Moorings recovered: 2 (#195 and 196 partial, deployed FA 80009 OCEANUS 81 May 23 - Jun. 1, 1980). XBT stations: 37; Surface salinity: 35; Bathmetry surveys at mooring stations: 5; Hydrographic stations: 38.
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman, Chief Scientist; John Larson, Frank Musialowski, Marlene Noble, Carol Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, Polly Shoukimas, William Strahle. Project = Lydonia Canyon Sediment Dynamics, Lydonia Canyon Sediment Dynamics
Platform
Oceanus
Length 177 feet; beam 33 feet; draft 17.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1980-11-24
End Woods Hole, MA 1980-12-03
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -71.5
East -67.4
North 41.5
South 40.25

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members
Marlene A Noble
Scientist, Staff
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Bradford Butman
Scientist, Staff
Parmenter, Carol M.
Scientist, Staff
Larson, John
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
Hastings, Mary E.
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Frank Musialowski; Andy Eliason - Eliason Data Services; Barry Allen and Ivors Britte - LDGO; Linda Philbin - WHOI

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Chemistry, Geology, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, daily narrative, station list with data acquired at each station, trackmaps and mooring location map, cross-sections with sediment trap locations, schematics of mooorings and the bridge log of navigation.

Moorings

RCV:195,196 PART; DEP:205,207,208,209,211,214,215,216,217,218,219,220;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
XBT Temperature (no data reported)
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD (no data reported)
Niskin bottle Chemistry (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam 1
Camera- deep sea Photo 1
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 1
12 kHz Single Beam 1
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1980-034-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Digital tape of BT data: inv. # 0941. Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-034-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 215; 19801201-19810429 Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-034-FA-LN-001-01 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation data recovered from 9 track tape Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-034-FA-SE-001 12 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-034-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform Georges Bank Sediment mooring data Ellyn Montgomery
1980-034-FA-OM-002 Bottom platform Lydonia canyon mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity