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

Field Activity 1998-044-FA

Identifier 1998-044-FA
Alternate names MH28-98
Purpose Exchange moorings off Boston and Scituate. Collect sediment cores and sediment-oxygen profiles near the future sewage outfall location. Collect water samples at the surface and bottom at the mooring site.
Location Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary All moored instruments were turned around without incident. High quality cores were collected at each station. Corer performed as designed. Moorings recovered: 4 (#529, 530, 531 and 532, all deployed FA 98028 MARCUS HANNA Jun. 17-19, 1998). Moorings deployed: 4 (#540, 541, 542 and 543, all recovered FA 99007 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 10-11, 1999).
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Suspended sediment concentrations;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Day 1: Jonathan Borden, Lisa Borden, Mike Bothner, Peter Gill, Hubbell, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Chris Sommerfield. Day 2: Mike Bothner, Peter Gill, Hubbell, Richard Rendigs, Chris Sommerfield. Project = Pollutant and Sediment Transport in Massachusetts Bay, Pollutant and Sediment Transport in Massachusetts Bay
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Platform
Marcus Hanna
175 feet long. Buoy tender.
Itinerary
Start Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA 1998-09-30
End Coast Guard Base, Boston, MA 1998-10-01
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.8
East -70.6
North 42.6
South 42.15

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
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Hubbell, Roger
Scientist, Staff
Sommerfield, Christopher
Scientist, Staff
Peter W. Gill
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Frances L Lightsom
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Day 1: Lisa Borden; Lary Ball (WHOI - Diver). Day 2: Joanne Goudreau (WHOI - oxygen profiler).

Data types and categories

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

Moorings

RCV:529,530,531,532; DEP:540,541,542,543;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Oxygen profiling system from Sayles Dissolved Oxygen (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Slow corer Geology 1
Osprey camera system Photo, Video (no data reported)
Camera- deep sea Photo 2
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1998-044-FA-SC-001 Slow corer CORE samples Brian Buczkowski
1998-044-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 540; 19980930-19990210 Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-044-FA-PH-002 Camera- deep sea DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 1-256, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 257-519, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 520-779, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 780-788, Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-044-FA-OM-001 Bottom platform DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 1-256, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 257-519, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 520-779, TRIPOD 540 BOSTON 780-788, Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-044-FA-OM-002 Bottom platform Western Mass Bay mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity