Identifier | 1991-003-FA | ||||||||
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Alternate names | 0C234 | ||||||||
Purpose | Deploy surface buoys and instrumentation at 6 sites in greater Massachusetts Bay. This winter experiment is designed to study the resuspension and transport of fine-grained sediments by winter storms. | ||||||||
Location | Massachusetts Bay, Stellwagen Basin, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
Summary | Deployed USGS Moorings: 4 (#369, 370, 371 and 372). Box cores: 8. Deployed UNH surface buoy and current meters: 2. Deployed UNH pressure gauge: 1. Deployed Surface drifters: 2 (#8172 and 8173). | ||||||||
Info derived | Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations; | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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Principal investigators | William J. Strahle | ||||||||||||||
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Affiliate principal | James Irish - UNH | ||||||||||||||
Affiliate staff | James Irish, Kenneth Morey, John Wallinga - UNH; David Nergaard - EG&G |
Data category: | Environmental Data, Imagery, Sampling, Time Series |
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Data type: | Current, Photo, Biology, Geology, Mooring (physical oceanography) |
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Cruise report | Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, objectives, daily narrative, instrument deployment locations, sample locations. |
Cruise report | WHOI cruise report - ship utilization data, trackmap, personnel. |
Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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Bottom platform | Mooring (physical oceanography) | 1 | |
Current Drift Bottle | Current | (no data reported) | |
Camera- deep sea | Photo | 1 | |
Box corer | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) |
Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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1991-003-FA-OM-001 | Bottom platform | Mass Bay Circulation mooring data | Ellyn Montgomery |
1991-003-FA-PH-001 | Camera- deep sea | film collection of TRIPOD 370; 19910131-19910618 | Nancy K. Soderberg |