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Field Activity Details for field activity 2012-014-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): John Warner

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Brandy Armstrong

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Meteorology, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Single Beam, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Recover moorings 919 - 933

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2012-04-16

End Date: 2012-04-20

Equipment Used: SeaBOSS, Digital camera, Sensors - other mooring, Echosounder, Bottom platform, HYPACK, Current, Pressure, Temperature and salinity, Turbidity, DGPS

Information to be Derived: Time series data;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Six moorings and nine tripods successfully recovered without incident.

Staff: Brandy Armstrong, Sandy Baldwin, Dann Blackwood, Jonathan Borden, Erika Lentz, Marinna Martini, Jeffrey Obelcz

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Project = Long Island Barrier Island,

Location:

Fire Island, New York, USA

Boundaries
North: 40.65251 South: 40.61187 West: -73.287 East: -73.15796

Platform(s):

photo of Connecticut
Connecticut

Publications

Montgomery, E., Sherwood, C, 2013, Studying seafloor bedforms using autonomous stationary imaging and profiling sonars: OCEANS'13 MTS/IEEE Proceedings Paper, pp. 1–7, URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6741159&abstractAccess=no&userType=inst.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SeaBOSS --- Surveys (biological)
Experiments (biological)
Species ID
Photo
Video
Geology
Biology
Digital camera --- Photo
2012-014-FA-PH-001 (Photos taken during preparation, deployment and recovery. )
Sensors - other mooring --- CTD
Meteorology
Temperature
Mooring (physical oceanography)
Echosounder --- Single Beam
Bottom platform --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
2012-014-FA-OM-001-01 (Hydra data: Point velocity, velocity profiles, pressure, salinity, temperature, acoustic backscatter, optical backscatter and transmissivity )
2012-014-FA-SO-001-01 (Pencil and Fanbeam data for mooring 924)
HYPACK --- Navigation
Current --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
2012-014-FA-OM-002-01 (ADCP and AWAC velocity profiles and wave data)
Pressure --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Temperature and salinity --- CTD
Temperature
2012-014-FA-OM-003-01 ( Microcat and Seacat data: Salinity, temperature and pressure)
Turbidity --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
DGPS --- Navigation

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