Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Richard Rendigs
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Water sampling at selected navigational buoy sites in Boston Harbor for geochemical baseline measurements.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Charlestown, MA
End Port/Location: Charlestown, MA
Start Date: 1995-08-03
End Date: 1995-08-03
Equipment Used: Visual navigation, Nansen bottles
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 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.
Staff: Richard Rendigs
Affiliate Staff:
Rob Rabideau - MWRA
Notes:
Location:
Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.33801 | South: 42.24479 | West: -71.0365 | East: -70.88654 |
Platform(s):
MWRA Whaler |
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.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual navigation | --- | Navigation | |
| Nansen bottles | --- | Temperature Chemistry |
