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Field Activity Details for field activity 2000-062-FA

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Other ID: IB A-62-00-MA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Borden

Affiliate Investigator(s): WHOI

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Deployment of NOPP/WHOI/USGS Tripods and Buoys.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Scituate, MA

End Port/Location: Scituate, MA

Start Date: 2000-07-19

End Date: 2000-07-19

Equipment Used: Bottom platform

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Successful deployment of USGS tripods. Limited success of Boston Buoy equipment. Successful redeploy of Scituate Buoy. Moorings deployed: 2 (#628, recovered FA 00085 Nov. 14, 2000, and #629 recovered FA 00066 CHRISTOPHER ANDREW Aug. 18, 2000).

Staff: Robert Barton, Jonathan Borden, Jessica M. Cote, Joseph S. Newell

Affiliate Staff:
Matthew Robidoux; Jonathan Ware - WHOI
Dan Frye - WHOI
N. McPhee - WHOI; Lisa Borden - MBL
Volunteer

Notes: Original Center People field contained: At Sea: Jonathan Borden, Jessica Cote, Matthew Robidoux; Mob/Demob: Joseph Newell, Robert Barton.
Project = NOPP Acoustic Modem tests, NOPP Acoustic Modem tests

Location:

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

Boundaries
North: 42.16792447 South: 42.14224953 West: -70.65672482 East: -70.61526843

Platform(s):

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Christopher Andrew

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.

Butman, B., Bothner, M.H., Alexander, P.S., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., and Strahle, W.S., 2004, Long-term oceanographic observations in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts; data report for 1989-2002: U.S. Geological Survey Digital Data Series DDS-74, Version 2.0, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74_v2.

Butman, B., Dalyander, P.S., Bothner, M.H., Borden, J., Casso, M.A., Gutierrez, B.T., Hastings, M.E., Lightsom, F.L., Martini, M.A., Montgomery, E.T., Rendigs, R.R., and Strahle, W.S., 2009, Long-term oceanographic observations in Massachusetts Bay, 1989 - 2006 (version 3): U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 74, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds74.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
2000-062-FA-OM-001 (Western Mass Bay mooring data)

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