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Field Activity Details for field activity 1987-032-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Bothner

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Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Sidescan, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect sediment samples for geochemical and geotechnical measurements. In addition to sediment samples, a short sidescan sonar survey will be conducted around transponders at the three tripod sites occupied by Butman.

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Start Date: 1987-07-29

End Date: 1987-08-07

Equipment Used: Van Veen grab sampler, Klein 531 sidescan, Loran-C, Slow corer

Information to be Derived: Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Michael Bothner, Thomas O'Brien, Lawrence Poppe, Richard Rendigs, William Winters, Kenneth F. Parolski, Joseph S. Newell

Affiliate Staff:
Schneider
Lobinski
Brown; Tripp (WHOI)

Notes: This effort is part of the program in Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay designed to determine the transport and accumulation of pollutants in this urbanized estuary. Information derived from pre-cruise report; no post-cruise report found. Original Center People field contained: Joe Newell (alternate captain), Mike Bothner, Bill Winters, Rick Rendigs, Schneider, Lobinski, Brown, Larry Poppe, Tom O'Brien, Ken Parolski.
Information from Foghorn: Hydraulically damped gravity corer;Teflon coated grab sampler;Klein sidescan system;Megapulse;Differential LORAN;Northstar 6000 navigation systems;

Location:

Boston Harbor, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.43742203 South: 41.92453119 West: -71.02968702 East: -70.46136677

Platform(s):

photo of Neecho
Neecho

Publications

Bothner, M.H., and Butman, Bradford (eds.), 2007, Processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminated sediments in the coastal ocean—Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1302, 89 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1302.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
Klein 531 sidescan --- Sidescan
Loran-C --- Navigation
Slow corer --- Geology
1987-032-FA-SC-001 (CORE, GRAB, HAND SAMPLE samples)

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