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

Field Activity 1982-001-FA

Identifier 1982-001-FA
Alternate names OC113
Purpose Recover 2 tripods and 7 subsurface moorings; deploy 3 tripods and 10 subsurface moorings; deploy 3 sediment trap moorings at Mobil Lease Block 312; deploy 5 surface marker buoys and others as required; collect surface grab samples at Station A; and conduct CTD and XBT observations around Lydonia and Oceanographer Canyons.
Location Lydonia Canyon, Oceanographer Canyon, Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Moorings recovered: 9 (#229, 230, 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237). Surface buoy recovered: 1 (LCP 2). Moorings deployed: 16 (#240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, 246, 247, 248, 249, 250, 251 all recovered FA 82020 OCEANUS 122 Jul. 6-15, 1982; #252 adrift recovered by fisherman Mar. 22, 1982; #253 tipped Jun. 11, 1982, float recovered by STATE PRIDE; #254 trap recovered by BEAUFORT SEAHORSE Jun. 11, 1982; #255 no recovery information). Surface buoys deployed: 4 (#LCA 1, LCL 2, OCA 2, GBS 2). Sediment grabs: 5; CTD stations: 42; XBT stations: 31; Bathymetric surveys: 6.
Info derived Time series data; Samples and chemical analysis; Grain size analysis;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Brad Butman, Mike Bothner, John Larson, Frank Musialowski, Marlene Noble, Carol Parmenter, Richard Rendigs, Mary Polly Shoukimas, William Strahle, Donald McElroy. Project = Sediment Dynamics, Sediment Dynamics
Related activities
1981-034-FA: Deployment-recovery
1982-020-FA: Deployment-recovery
Platform
Oceanus
Length 177 feet; beam 33 feet; draft 17.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1982-01-26
End Woods Hole, MA 1982-02-04
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -67.84672723
East -67.47560954
North 40.62599765
South 40.32932941

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Bradford Butman
Crew members
Marlene A Noble
Scientist, Staff
Michael Bothner
Scientist, Staff
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Bradford Butman
Scientist, Staff
Parmenter, Carol M.
Scientist, Staff
Larson, John
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
Hastings, Mary E.
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Frank Musialowski, Donald McElroy; Andrew Eliason - Eliason Data Services; Patricia Hughes - Mass. CZM

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sonar, Time Series
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Photo, Navigation, Single Beam, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment configuration, data acquisition notes, cruise narrative, grab sample identifiers and locations, mooring locations, hydrographic (CTD, XBT, surface salinity) and bathymetric surveys, track maps, bridge Loran log.
Cruise report WHOI cruise report including personnel, trackmap, station locations.

Moorings

RCV:229,230,231,232,233,234,235,236,237; DEP:240,241,242,243,244,245,246,247,248,249, 250,251,252,253, 254,255;

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Echosounder Single Beam 1
XBT Temperature (no data reported)
CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl CTD 1
Camera- deep sea Photo 1
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 1
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1982-001-FA-SE-001 Echosounder Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-001-FA-OM-001 CTD 19+ with OBS, PAR, DO, Chl Digital tape(s) of NV, CTD STATION DATA, Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-001-FA-PH-001 Camera- deep sea film collection of TRIPOD 249; 19820128-19820708 Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-001-FA-LN-001 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Digital tape(s) of NV, CTD STATION DATA, Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-001-FA-OM-002 Bottom platform Lydonia Canyon mooring data Ellyn Montgomery
1982-001-FA-OM-003 Bottom platform Oceanographer canyon mooring data Ellyn Montgomery

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity