2000-003-FA (CMHRP activity #1574)

Field Activity 2000-003-FA

Identifier

2000-003-FA

Alternate names

MH33-00; IB H-3-00-MY

Purpose

Recovery of moorings #611-615 and deployment of moorings #624-627 at the Boston Approach Buoy.

Location

Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Summary

Diving was not needed on this cruise. All instruments were recovered without a problem. Deployed moorings 611-614. Moorings deployed: 4 (#624, 625, 626 and 627, all recovered FA 00004 MARCUS HANNA Sep. 26-28, 2000). Moorings recovered: 5 (#611, 612, 613 and 614 all deployed FA 00002 MARCUS HANNA Feb. 15-16, 2000; and #615 deployed FA 00048 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Mar. 28-29, 2000).

Comments

Original Center People field contained: At-sea participants: Jonathan Borden, Mike Bothner, Dann Blackwood, Michael Casso, Jessica Cote, Roger Hubbell, Courtney Harris, Marinna Martini, Richard Rendigs, Sunita Shah, and G. Begley. Mob and demob: Joseph Newell, Robert Barton. Original Submitted By field contained: Mike Bothner; edited by Jessica Cote. Project = Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Monitoring, Massachusetts Bay Long-Term Monitoring

URL

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2008/07/awards.html

Platform

Marcus Hanna

175 feet long. Buoy tender.

Itinerary

Start	Boston, MA	2000-05-09
End	Boston, MA	2000-05-10
Days in the field	2

Bounds

West	-70.84131484
East	-70.63629445
North	42.39360068
South	42.15899218

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

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
Dann S Blackwood	Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini	Scientist, Staff
Robert W Barton	Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden	Scientist, Staff
Hubbell, Roger	Scientist, Staff
Harris, Courtney	Scientist, Staff
Cote, Jessica M.	Scientist, Staff
Newell, Joseph S.	Scientist, Staff
Shah, Sunita	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Frances L Lightsom	Specialist, Information
Michael Casso	Specialist, Information

Affiliate staff

G. Begley; Joanne Goudreau - WHOI

Data types and categories

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

Moorings

RCV:611,612,613,614,615; DEP:624,625,626,627;

Equipment used

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

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2000-003-FA-PH-001	Camera- deep sea	film collection of TRIPOD 625; 20000509-20000926	Nancy K. Soderberg
2000-003-FA-PH-002	Camera- deep sea	DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 1-230, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 231-460, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 461-711, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 711-749, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 760-790,	Nancy K. Soderberg
2000-003-FA-SC-001	Slow corer	CORE samples	Brian Buczkowski
2000-003-FA-PH-003	Digital camera	Deck photos of field activity operations	Dann S Blackwood
2000-003-FA-OM-001	Bottom platform	DVD ROM disk of MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 1-230, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 231-460, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 461-711, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 711-749, TRIPOD 625 BOSTON 760-790,	Nancy K. Soderberg
2000-003-FA-OM-002	Bottom platform	Western Mass Bay mooring data	Ellyn Montgomery