Field Activity 2009-060-FA

Identifier 2009-060-FA
Purpose Deploy ADCP at channel entrance and perform tidal-cycle studies to estimate fluxes of water and nutrients.
Location Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Deployed instrument (8/4/09), checked instrument battery and mount (8/6/09).
Info derived time series data
Comments Original Center People field contained: Neil Ganju: hydrodynamic measurements, modeling; Chris Sherwood: hydrodynamic measurements, modeling; Jon Borden: deployment of acoustics; Sandy Baldwin: deployment of acoustics. Project = National Community Sediment Transport: Pilot Model Applications, National Community Sediment Transport: Pilot Model Applications
Projects
Platform
Dock
Itinerary
Start West Falmouth Harbor, MA 2009-08-04
End West Falmouth Harbor, MA 2009-08-04
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -70.6489
East -70.63754
North 41.60832
South 41.5985

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Neil Kamal Ganju
Crew members
Neil Kamal Ganju
Scientist, Staff
Christopher R Sherwood
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Neil Kamal Ganju
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Time Series
Data type: Methane, Navigation, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Current Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)
Gas sampler Dissolved Oxygen, Gas Hydrates, Methane (no data reported)
GPS - Handheld Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
data from 2009-060-FA Bottom platform All data from West Falmouth Harbor studies in summer 2009, 2010, 2012 Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity