Summary Information for Field Activity 1995-041-FA

Area of Operations: Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: August 03, 1995 to August 03, 1995

Chief scientist: Rick Rendigs

Objectives: Water sampling at selected navigational buoy sites in Boston Harbor for geochemical baseline measurements.

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary: One sample approximately 2 meters off the bottom and another 2 meters below the surface. Sample was taken about 2 hours after ebb tide commenced.

Contact: Rick Rendigs (rrendigs@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier M-41-95-MY. Visit this site for more information.

Platform Info:

MWRA WHALER

Publications resulting from these data

Bothner, M.H., Butman, B., Alexander, P.S., Baldwin, S.M., Blackwood, D.S., Borden, J., Casso, M.A., Crusius, J., Goudreau, J., Kalnejais, L.H., Lamothe, P.J., Martin, W.R., Martini, M.A., Rendigs, R.R., Sayles, F.L., Signell, R.P., Valentine, P.C., and Warner, J.C.,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.. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/2007/1302/)

Data Types and Locations:

Logs

Chief Scientist's report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, and sample locations.

Samples