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

Field Activity 2003-030-FA

Identifier 2003-030-FA
Purpose Deploy and recover tripods for test of instrumentation.
Location Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Mooring deployed: 1 (#715 July 21 2003; recovered Jul. 29, 20003.) Engineering test of equipment. Two separate trips, 1 day deployment (July 21), 1 day recovery (July 29th).
Info derived Time series data;
Comments This is mooring #715. Project = Marthas Vineyard Summertest, Marthas Vineyard Summertest
Platform
Asterias
Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2003-07-21
End Woods Hole, MA 2003-07-29
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.6712
East -70.48553
North 41.35802
South 41.25097

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Marinna A Martini
Crew members
Christopher R Sherwood
Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Bohara, Amit
Scientist, Staff
Ruane, Stephen
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Menlo Park
Affiliate staff Joanne Ferreira - USGS

Data types and categories

Data category: Visual Identification, Location-Elevation
Data type: Ground Truthing, Navigation

Moorings

RCV: 715; DEP: 715;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Mooring tripod Ground Truthing (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity