Field Activity 2007-029-FA

Identifier 2007-029-FA
Purpose Recover 2 tripods, mooring #836 (particle/sonar) and 837.
Location Martha's Vineyard Coastal Observatory, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Recovered USGS tripods: 2 (mooring #836 and 837; deployed CONN FA 07028, Aug. 27, 2008). Recovered WHOI tripods.
Info derived Time series data; Suspended sediment concentrations; Morphology;
Comments Project = ONR Ripples DRI, ONR Ripples DRI
Platform
Connecticut
Length, molded: 90 feet; Beam: 26 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2007-10-29
End Woods Hole, MA 2007-10-29
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.6167
East -70.48333
North 41.35
South 41.26667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Ellyn Montgomery
Scientist, Staff
Christopher R Sherwood
Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Ferre, Benedicte
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ellyn Montgomery
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal WHOI, ONR
Affiliate staff Chris Hein, Boston University student; Peter Traykovski, WHOI; Fred Thwaites, WHOI; Andy Girard, WHOI

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar, Time Series, Visual Identification
Data type: CTD, Conductivity, Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Geology, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography), Ground Truthing

Moorings

RCV: 836, 837; DEP:;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Mooring tripod Ground Truthing (no data reported)
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature (no data reported)
Pressure Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Turbidity Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Current Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Rotating Imagenex sonar Single Beam (no data reported)
Two-axis pencil-beam Imagenex sonar Single Beam (no data reported)
Acoustic backscatter sensors Single Beam (no data reported)
Digital camera Photo (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity