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

Field Activity 1994-015-FA

Identifier 1994-015-FA
Alternate names W16-94
Purpose To recover and redeploy the 2 standard instrumented tripods and a subsurface mooring, and collect 3 hydraulically damped gravity cores (with video monitor) and Van Veen grab samples.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary Moorings deployed: 2 (#445 and 446 recovered FA 95017 WHITE HEATH Feb. 24-25, 1995). Moorings recovered: 3 (#440 and 441 deployed FA 94022 WHITE HEATH Jun. 7-8, 1994; #442 deployed FA 94019 WHITE HEATH Jul. 6, 1994). Cores: 13; Van Veen grabs: 3; video transects: 2.
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Comments Project = Studies of circulation and contaminant transport, Studies of circulation and contaminant transport
URL
Platform
White Heath
Length: 133 feet; Beam: 30 feet.
Itinerary
Start USCG Base, Boston, MA 1994-10-04
End USCG Base, Boston, MA 1994-10-05
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.8
East -70.75
North 42.4
South 42.3

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Michael Bothner
Crew members
Michael Bothner
Scientist, Staff
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Michael Casso
Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
Newell, Joseph S.
Scientist, Staff
Peter W. Gill
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Mark Goodwin, Leo Sommaripa, and Anne Canaday - MWRA

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, daily narrative, equipment, tabulated information, location map, schematic of equipment deployment, sample and mooring locations.

Moorings

RCV:440,441,442; DEP:445,446;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Van Veen grab sampler Geology (no data reported)
Slow corer Geology (no data reported)
Camera- deep sea Photo 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1994-015-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 445; 19941004-19950215 Nancy K. Soderberg
1994-015-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform Western Mass Bay mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity