| SERIAL NUMBER | DATES | SHIP | CHIEF SCIENTIST | DESCRIPTION | 2013-029-FA | 2013-05-03 - 2013-05-17 | AMARILLO | Brian Buczkowski | test this system |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-049-FA | 2012-11-09 - 2012-11-16 | ON FOOT | Kevin Kroeger | To quantify the geochemical components involved in a tidal marsh system in Waquoit Bay Ma. |
| 2012-043-FA | 2012-09-25 - 2012-09-25 | TIOGA | Brad Butman | Test video camera and lights on WHOI Craib corer. |
| 2012-035-FA | 2012-08-21 - 2012-08-27 | Seth Ackerman | Sediment Grab Samples and Seafloor Photography/Video | |
| 2012-022-FA | 2012-06-11 - 2012-08-17 | KNOB | Neil Ganju | measure light attenutation, turbidity, chlorophyll over seagrass canopies |
| 2012-017-FA | 2012-05-07 - 2012-05-23 | Neil Ganju | velocity and salinity profiles at Nauset Marsh | |
| 2012-013-FA | 2012-04-02 - 2012-08-31 | ON FOOT | Kevin Kroeger | To quantify the geochemical components involved in a tidal marsh system in Waquoit Bay Ma. |
| 2011-057-FA | 2011-12-12 - 2011-12-16 | RAFAEL | Bill Danforth Barry Irwin Eric Moore Chuck Worley | Test new equipment |
| 2011-046-FA | 2011-09-28 - 2011-09-28 | TIOGA | Brad Butman Neil Ganju | Recover mooring 914 in Buzzards Bay (41 31.8522 N, 70 48.6134 W; 16 m); Recover Buzzards Bay Environmental Quality Sampling Team(BEQUEST) mooring offshore of West Falmouth (41 36.4N ; 70 40.5 W; 38'). BEQUEST mooring requires divers. |
| 2011-049-FA | 2011-09-20 - 2011-09-20 | Dann Blackwood | Photograph and sample tunicates growing on eelgrass. | |
| 2011-045-FA | 2011-09-17 - 2011-09-17 | CONNECTICUT | Chris Sherwood | Deploy tripod. |
| 2011-015-FA | 2011-09-09 - 2011-09-16 | OSV BOLD | Bill Schwab | This is in response to a request for SeaBOSS for Mass CZM |
| 2011-042-FA | 2011-08-26 - 2011-08-26 | TIOGA | Brad Butman | Deploy bottom tripod in Buzzards Bay in advance of Hurrican Irene |
| 2011-013-FA | 2011-08-01 - 2011-08-31 | RAFAEL | Dave Foster | Sea floor mapping along the Elizabeth Islands, Middle Ground, Hedge Fence, and L'Hommedieu Shoals |
| 2011-035-FA | 2011-07-13 - 2011-07-13 | Neil Ganju | Sample nitrate and salinity in West Falmouth Harbor | |
| 2011-030-FA | 2011-05-09 - 2011-05-09 | Neil Ganju | Measure nitrate concentrations in Salt Pond, Nauset | |
| 2011-020-FA | 2011-04-11 - 2011-04-14 | RAFAEL | Bill Danforth | Test the horizontal positioning accuracy of our kinematic equipment integrated with the SwathPlus interferometric system |
| 2011-016-FA | 2011-03-17 - 2011-03-17 | KNOB | Neil Ganju | Spatial profiling of salinity and nitrate in West Falmouth Harbor |
| 2011-014-FA | 2011-02-24 - 2011-02-24 | WHOI DOCK | Page Valentine | Monitor experiment on the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum at the WHOI dock. |
| 2011-009-FA | 2011-01-27 - 2011-01-27 | Maritime Academy pool | Marinna Martini | test and demonstrate sonar |
| 2011-007-FA | 2011-01-11 - 2011-01-11 | WHOI DOCK | Page Valentine | Monitor experiment on the invasive colonial tunicate Didemnum vexillum at the WHOI dock. |
| 2010-106-FA | 2010-10-07 - 2010-10-07 | ON FOOT | Mike Bothner | Determine the concentrations of mercury in the fish of Oyster Pond. |
| 2010-084-FA | 2010-09-21 - 2010-09-21 | TIOGA | Mike Bothner | Collect sediment cores for determination of contaminant concentrations. Measure the partitioning of inorganic and methyl mercury in pore water from Hull Bay sediments. Measure the rates of mercury methylation in Hull Bay sediments. |
| 2010-005-FA | 2010-09-08 - 2010-09-15 | CONNECTICUT | Wayne Baldwin Bill Schwab | Collect bottom photography and sediment samples to validate geophysical data. |
| 2010-074-FA | 2010-08-20 - 2010-08-20 | TIOGA | Chris Sherwood | CTD and dissolved oxygen survey of Buzzards Bay, in the vicinity of West Falmouth Harbor. |
| 2010-060-FA | 2010-07-13 - 2010-07-13 | AQUAMONITOR | Sandy Baldwin | Assist MBL with core collection in Boston Harbor. Will not be bringing any samples or data back to the USGS. |
| 2010-031-FA | 2010-07-02 - 2010-07-02 | KNOB | Neil Ganju | Velocity, nitrate, oxygen and other instrument deployment. |
| 2010-050-FA | 2010-06-21 - 2010-06-21 | RAFAEL | Bill Danforth | Map the area where the Mass Maritime Academy training ship Kennedy resides. |
| 2010-040-FA | 2010-06-10 - 2010-06-10 | RAFAEL | Chuck Worley | Equipment testing. |
| 2010-037-FA | 2010-05-07 - 2010-05-07 | KAYAK | Neil Ganju | Check depths in West Falmouth Harbor. |
| 2010-036-FA | 2010-05-01 - 2010-05-01 | AQUAMONITOR | Sandy Baldwin | Using SCUBA to clean instruments on a buoy moored 10 miles off shore of Boston. |
| 2010-035-FA | 2010-04-27 - 2010-04-27 | AQUAMONITOR | Sandy Baldwin | Cleaning a monitoring buoy about 6 miles off shore from Boston. |
| 2009-067-FA | 2009-09-17 - 2009-09-22 | John Bratton John Crusius Kevin Kroeger Chris Sherwood | Collect surface water samples in W. Falmouth Harbor for analysis of nutrients, dissolved greenhouse gases and radon. Collect continuous discharge, nitrate and salinity measurements at Mashapaquit Creek. | |
| 2008-036-FA | 2008-09-08 - 2008-09-10 | TERRAPIN | Adrian Green | Collection of shallow groundwater and surface water samples for analysis of nutrients and dissolved greenhouse gases. Chamber measurements of greenhouse gases. |
| 2008-003-FA | 2008-01-07 - 2008-01-07 | TIOGA | Mike Bothner | Collect 6 sediment cores and bottom water from Hingham Bay, Station 8. |
| 2007-032-FA | 2007-09-19 - 2007-09-19 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Collect hydraulically damped gravity cores and bottom water for the study of metals in contaminated sediments. Bottom water will be collected for dissolved oxygen determinations. |
| 2007-003-FA | 2007-09-06 - 2007-09-15 | CONNECTICUT | Walter Barnhardt | Ground validation of geophysical mapping done in previous surveys: bottom sampling, photography, and coring. |
| 2007-002-FA | 2007-07-23 - 2007-08-08 | MEGAN T MILLER | Walter Barnhardt | Geologic mapping of sea floor (geophysics only). |
| 2007-014-FA | 2007-03-21 - 2007-03-21 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Collect sediment cores at Stations 2 and 3 for measurements or pore water profiles, erosion, solid phase chemistry. Collect bottom water at Station 2. |
| 2006-031-FA | 2006-09-18 - 2006-09-23 | VENTURE | Dann Blackwood | Ground truth with SEABOSS to collect sea floor sediment samples, video transects and still photos in four areas with four sites each area. |
| 2006-019-FA | 2006-05-08 - 2006-06-06 | VENTURE | Dann Blackwood | Occupy 50 SEABOSS stations to collect sea floor sediment samples, video transects and still camera photos. |
| 2006-003-FA | 2006-02-08 - 2006-02-08 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Recover an instrumented tripod (#805) at Massachusetts Bay Station A. Collect sediment cores at Stations 2 and 3. Deploy oxygen probe and benthic chambers. Collect water samples for determination of radium and radon concentrations. |
| 2006-011-FA | 2006-01-17 - 2006-01-17 | Mike Bothner | Tour of the Deer Island Treatment Plant. | |
| 2005-048-FA | 2005-11-21 - 2005-11-21 | RAFAEL | Jane Denny | Geophysical survey in Boston Harbor - sidescan sonar and swath bathymetry of small area to be used as habitat vitalization by MA Division of Marine Fisheries. |
| 2005-038-FA | 2005-09-28 - 2005-09-29 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Recover moorings, deploy small tripod, SCUBA dive for horse mussels, collect sediment cores, and deploy and recover sediment probe for oxygen profiles and fluxes. |
| 2005-033-FA | 2005-08-15 - 2005-08-15 | USCG 49 FOOT BUOY TENDER | Mike Bothner | Collect sediment cores from Monitoring Stations 4 and 8 in Boston Harbor for metals analysis. |
| 2005-029-FA | 2005-07-07 - 2005-07-07 | ZODIAC | John Crusius | Collect water samples for Ra, Rn, and nutrient analysis. |
| 2005-027-FA | 2005-06-21 - 2005-08-21 | ON FOOT | John Crusius | Collect water samples for Ra, Rn, and nutrient analysis. |
| 2005-051-FA | 2005-06-15 - 2005-08-20 | KAYAK | John Crusius | Map radon in groundwater discharge in West Falmouth Harbor, MA with instrument mounted on sailboat platform towed by kayak. |
| 2005-023-FA | 2005-06-02 - 2005-06-03 | LOONEY | Jonathan Borden | Dive for remains of collapsed mooring 787. Inspect tripod 786 and mooring 788 to determine their status after the northeast storm of 5/25/05. |
| 2005-003-FA | 2005-02-09 - 2005-02-09 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings and collect sediment cores at long-term sites in Massachusetts Bay. |
| 2004-065-FA | 2004-12-31 - 2004-12-31 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Jonathan Borden | Recover drifting mooring #774 in Massachusetts Bay. |
| 2004-032-FA | 2004-09-22 - 2004-09-23 | ABBIE BURGESS | Mike Bothner | Exchanged long-term moorings at Station A off Boston. Collected 8 sediment cores. Deployed and recovered oxygen profiler. Deployed benthic chambers. |
| 2004-019-FA | 2004-09-13 - 2004-09-17 | RAFAEL | Brad Butman | Bottom sampling, video and photography for ground truthing multibeam bathymetric data. |
| 2004-049-FA | 2004-09-08 - 2004-09-08 | TIOGA | Mike Bothner | To deploy oxygen profiler and benthic chambers and collect 6 cores from Station 7 (in Cape Cod Bay SW of Provincetown). The slow corer will be used in the gravity mode and the piston mode. |
| 2004-054-FA | 2004-06-23 - 2004-06-23 | RAFAEL | Mike Bothner | Recover two benthic chambers in Hingham Bay and collect several diver-collected push cores. The benthic chambers were previously deployed by WHOI scientists W. Martin and J. Goudreau on 6/16/04 from the RAFAEL (HB-0604). |
| 2004-026-FA | 2004-05-19 - 2004-05-20 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange long-term moorings, collect sediment cores, obtain oxygen profiles within surface sediment, collect horse mussels using SCUBA from rocky bottoms near outfall, and deploy benthic chambers to measure fluxes of dissolved constituents in sediment-pore waters. |
| 2004-016-FA | 2004-02-05 - 2004-02-06 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings at the Boston B Buoy. Recover moorings at the site off Scituate. On the second day, collect sediment cores and sediment-oxygen profiles at Stations 2 and 3. |
| 2003-014-FA | 2003-08-22 - 2003-08-28 | CONNECTICUT | Page Valentine | Sea floor habitat research. |
| 2003-035-FA | 2003-06-17 - 2003-06-17 | RAFAEL | Mike Bothner | Deploy oxygen profiling instrument at long-term Monitoring Stations 3 and 2; test grab sampler. |
| 2003-034-FA | 2003-06-12 - 2003-06-12 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Mike Bothner | Collect sediment cores at two long-term monitoring stations in Massachusetts Bay near the outfall for Boston's treated sewage. |
| 2003-020-FA | 2003-03-29 - 2003-03-31 | CONNECTICUT | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings and collect sediment samples. This is part of the long-term USGS-MWRA cooperative study. |
| 2003-023-FA | 2003-03-23 - 2003-03-26 | Page Valentine | Seabed photographic imagery and sidescan from AUVs for habitat mapping and classification. | |
| 2002-056-FA | 2002-09-19 - 2002-09-19 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Marinna Martini | Repair telemetry on B-buoy and redeploy mooring #693A. |
| 2002-029-FA | 2002-09-09 - 2002-09-13 | FERREL | Page Valentine | Geologic studies of benthic habitats in the Stellwagen Bank NMS region. |
| 2002-052-FA | 2002-08-08 - 2002-08-08 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Marinna Martini | Diagnose telemetry problems on B-buoy. |
| 2002-048-FA | 2002-06-20 - 2002-06-20 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Marinna Martini | Set tripod #693; install telemetry equipment on USCG buoy. |
| 2001-024-FA | 2001-10-23 - 2001-10-23 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings off Boston. Collect sediment cores and deploy oxygen profiler at Stations 2 and 3 near the Massachusetts Bay outfall. Deploy benthic chambers at Station 3. (Scituate moorings will be exchanged using the CHRISTOPHER ANDREW.) |
| 2001-060-FA | 2001-08-27 - 2001-08-31 | CONNECTICUT | Page Valentine | Geological and biological observations and sampling for habitat mapping. |
| 2000-086-FA | 2000-11-13 - 2000-12-19 | RAFAEL | Larry Poppe | We will be collecting high-resolution, Chirp and boomer sub-bottom data to map the Quaternary stratigraphy beneath Wellfleet Harbor and Cape Cod Bay along the western coast of Wellfleet and Truro. The stratigraphic data will be used in models of the glacial aquifer, and for locating wells on land. |
| 2000-074-FA | 2000-09-22 - 2000-09-22 | Mike Bothner | Deploy two benthic chambers ("squirts") near the long-term Station 3. The purpose is to measure the flux of metals and nutrients from sediments. Discharge of sewage effluent from the Massachusetts Bay outfall began on September 6. | |
| 2000-070-FA | 2000-08-17 - 2000-08-18 | ASTERIAS | Mike Bothner | Collect cores at long-term monitoring stations in Cape Cod Bay. This work supports the Outfall Monitoring Program and is scheduled on short notice to collect samples before the outfall begins on September 6, 2000. |
| 2000-061-FA | 2000-07-09 - 2000-07-09 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | The cruise objective is to collect sediment cores at 6 long-term monitoring stations within Boston Harbor. The cores will be used to determine the concentrations and inventories of heavy metals. The previous work at these stations has documented a 50% decrease in metal concentrations in surface sediments between 1977 and 1993. This sampling will check conditions just before the sewage outfall is changed from Deer Island (at the mouth of the harbor) to the new location 9 miles offshore. |
| 2000-003-FA | 2000-05-09 - 2000-05-10 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Recovery of moorings #611-615 and deployment of moorings #624-627 at the Boston Approach Buoy. |
| 2000-002-FA | 2000-02-15 - 2000-02-16 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Mooring turn-around and sediment sampling. |
| 1999-009-FA | 1999-09-21 - 1999-09-22 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings at two locations and collect sediment cores at two long-term monitoring stations. We will also measure oxygen profiles at the sediment stations. |
| 1999-040-FA | 1999-05-26 - 1999-05-26 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Brad Butman | Locate and recover tripod by means of divers (failed release). |
| 1999-008-FA | 1999-05-11 - 1999-05-12 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings at two locations and collect sediment cores at two long-term monitoring stations. We will also make measurements of oxygen profiles at the sediment stations. |
| 1999-021-FA | 1999-03-26 - 1999-03-26 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Brad Butman | Deploy subsurface mooring #568 for MWRA cooperative. |
| 1999-011-FA | 1999-03-18 - 1999-03-26 | DELAWARE II | Page Valentine | Sampling (video, photo, sediment) and sub-bottom profiling. |
| 1999-007-FA | 1999-02-10 - 1999-02-11 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings at two locations and collect sediment cores at two long-term monitoring stations. We made measurements of oxygen profiles at the sediment stations. Water samples were collected for total suspended matter measurements at the surface and bottom at Station 3. |
| 1998-053-FA | 1998-12-01 - 1998-12-02 | JOHNS POND | Rick Rendigs | Recover sample bottles emplaced in sediments in Johns Pond on 11/17 and 11/18/1998. |
| 1998-052-FA | 1998-11-17 - 1998-11-19 | JOHNS POND | Rick Rendigs | Emplace sample bottles in lake sediments by SCUBA diving. |
| 1998-044-FA | 1998-09-30 - 1998-10-01 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings off Boston and Scituate. Collect sediment cores and sediment-oxygen profiles near the future sewage outfall location. Collect water samples at the surface and bottom at the mooring site. |
| 1998-032-FA | 1998-08-30 - 1998-09-03 | ARGO MAINE | Brad Butman | Recover moorings in Stellwagen Basin for internal wave experiment. Conduct hydrographic survey. |
| 1998-040-FA | 1998-08-20 - 1998-08-20 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Brad Butman | Conduct hydrographic survey as part of internal wave experiment. |
| 1998-041-FA | 1998-08-10 - 1998-08-11 | JOHNS POND | Rick Rendigs | SCUBA operations to recover vapor diffusion sampling bottles emplaced into the lake sediments approx. two weeks ago. |
| 1998-033-FA | 1998-08-06 - 1998-08-06 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Brad Butman | Conduct hydrographic survey as part of internal wave experiment. Describe and track internal waves using acoustics. |
| 1998-031-FA | 1998-08-03 - 1998-08-07 | ARGO MAINE | Brad Butman | Deploy moorings in Massachusetts Bay for internal wave experiment. Conduct hydrographic survey. |
| 1998-037-FA | 1998-07-28 - 1998-07-29 | JOHNS POND | Rick Rendigs | Emplace vapor diffusion sampling bottles into the bottom sediments by USGS SCUBA divers. |
| 1998-028-FA | 1998-06-17 - 1998-06-19 | MARCUS HANNA | Mike Bothner | Exchange moorings near the future outfall site in western Massachusetts Bay and off Scituate. Collect about 28 sediment cores from Massachusetts Bay and Cape Cod Bay. Collect oxygen profiles in sediments. |
| 1998-027-FA | 1998-04-23 - 1998-04-23 | JOHNS POND | Dann Blackwood | Recover headspace samplers from pond bottom in suspected discharge area of SD-5 Plume using SCUBA. Run samples through gas chromatograph on site. |
| 1998-026-FA | 1998-04-15 - 1998-04-15 | JOHNS POND | Dann Blackwood | Set up transect lines and embed sample bottles using SCUBA in pond bottom to measure SD-5 plume contaminants. |
| 1997-035-FA | 1997-11-19 - 1997-12-01 | CREED | Brad Butman | Complete multibeam survey of Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1997-043-FA | 1997-10-09 - 1997-10-09 | CHRISTOPHER ANDREW | Brad Butman | Attempt recovery of ADCP using divers. |
| 1997-017-FA | 1997-09-23 - 1997-09-24 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1997-016-FA | 1997-06-10 - 1997-06-10 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | To conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments and suspended matter in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1997-015-FA | 1997-02-11 - 1997-02-13 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1996-023-FA | 1996-10-01 - 1996-10-02 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | 22nd cruise monitoring currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay: Recover/redeploy standard tripod, small tripod - ADCP, suspended sediment sampler, hydraulically damped corer, Van Veen, video, O2 profiler. |
| 1996-022-FA | 1996-08-07 - 1996-08-08 | ASTERIAS | Mike Bothner | Collect series of cores from 4 sites (sampled 3 times since 1977, most recently in 1993) to measure sedimentation and mixing rates in metals concentrations; compare changes in metals inventory from cores 1977-present. Collect 3 cores with 1 m barrels at each station; possible 2 m core from Station 8. |
| 1996-049-FA | 1996-07-09 - 1996-07-09 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Sampling and coring rescheduled from June 11 cruise (FA 96012) to July 9, 1996, with Ken Keay - MWRA. Second leg, 21st USGS-MWRA-USCG cruise (FA 96012): long-term currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical sediment characteristics monitoring. |
| 1996-012-FA | 1996-06-11 - 1996-06-11 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner Bill Strahle | 21st USGS-MWRA-USCG long-term currents, sediment transport, physical/chemical sediment characteristics monitoring: recover moorings #465 and 466; deploy moorings #468, 469 and 470. |
| 1996-007-FA | 1996-02-14 - 1996-02-15 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | This was the 20th USGS-MWRA cruise to monitor currents, sediment transport and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments using moored instruments and sediment sampling near the future sewage outfall for Boston in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1996-019-FA | 1996-02-01 - 1996-02-01 | WHITE HEATH | Bill Strahle | Recover mooring #464 and rest of ADCP tripod #463. |
| 1996-020-FA | 1996-01-29 - 1996-01-29 | ASTERIAS | Thomas F. O'Brien | Re-evaluate SIS-1000 following corrections to hardware. |
| 1995-038-FA | 1995-09-26 - 1995-09-27 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1995-041-FA | 1995-08-03 - 1995-08-03 | MWRA WHALER | Rick Rendigs | Water sampling at selected navigational buoy sites in Boston Harbor for geochemical baseline measurements. |
| 1995-018-FA | 1995-07-21 - 1995-07-26 | ANDERSON | Marinna Martini | |
| 1995-035-FA | 1995-07-10 - 1995-07-10 | WHITE HEATH | Marinna Martini | Deploy tripod #461. |
| 1995-032-FA | 1995-06-13 - 1995-06-14 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1995-022-FA | 1995-03-17 - 1995-03-17 | WHITE HEATH | Marinna Martini | Inspect mooring. |
| 1995-017-FA | 1995-02-14 - 1995-02-15 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. This cruise will be the 17th in a program jointly funded by the USGS and the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority. The U.S. Coast Guard is generously providing ship time and at-sea support. Time-series sediment traps and a remotely operated suspended matter sampler will be deployed on the subsurface mooring. |
| 1994-015-FA | 1994-10-04 - 1994-10-05 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | To recover and redeploy the 2 standard instrumented tripods and a subsurface mooring, and collect 3 hydraulically damped gravity cores (with video monitor) and Van Veen grab samples. |
| 1994-024-FA | 1994-07-05 - 1994-07-08 | ASTERIAS | Bill Danforth | Conducted a sidescan sonar survey in a localized area within Massachusetts Bay. Collected video, Van Veen grab samples and slow cores to enable ground truthing of the sonar data. |
| 1994-022-FA | 1994-06-07 - 1994-06-08 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | To recover/redeploy BASS and ADCP tripods and to collect sediment samples with the hydraulically damped corer and a Van Veen grab sampler at 4 stations. |
| 1993-024-FA | 1993-10-05 - 1993-10-06 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Recovered moorings #420 and 421 and deployed #428 and 429 in Massachusetts Bay; conducted sediment sampling and subsampling. |
| 1993-020-FA | 1993-08-30 - 1993-08-30 | ASTERIAS | Mike Bothner | Collect 3 replicate slow cores with TV video at 4 stations in Boston Harbor that we have sampled before (1977, 1978, and 1987). |
| 1993-003-FA | 1993-02-25 - 1993-02-26 | ASTERIAS | Bill Strahle | Recover remaining instruments from mooring #408. |
| 1993-031-FA | 1993-02-25 - 1993-02-26 | WHITE HEATH | Marinna Martini Bill Strahle | Deploy tripod #413 and subsurface mooring #414 in Massachusetts Bay at LNB Site. |
| 1993-002-FA | 1993-02-17 - 1993-02-18 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Recover moorings #407 and 408 (partial) and deploy mooring #414 (partial) at LNB Boston; sampling and subsampling. |
| 1992-026-FA | 1992-10-20 - 1992-10-21 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Recover tripod #400 and moorings #401 and 402, and deploy tripod #407 and surface mooring and near surface current meter #408 at LNB Boston. Collect sediment samples with hydraulically damped corer and Van Veen grab sampler. |
| 1992-032-FA | 1992-06-15 - 1992-06-16 | WHITE HEATH | Bill Strahle | Deploy mooring #402 near LNB Buoy, Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1992-008-FA | 1992-06-02 - 1992-06-02 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Conduct long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. LNB Buoy: 42d22.63N, 70d47.07W. Tripod 396. LNB Buoy: 42d22.61N, 70d46.96W. Subsurface Moorings 3971 and 3972 (2 VMCM, Seacat). LNB Buoy: 42d22.63N, 70d47.07W. Tripod 4001. LNB Buoy: 42d22.6092N, 70d46.9614W. Subsurface 4011 and 4012 (2 VMCM, 3 Seacat). |
| 1992-005-FA | 1992-05-06 - 1992-05-14 | ARGO MAINE | Ron Circe | Collect sidescan sonar data and ground truth (with grab samples) in order to complete a data set showing the surficial sedimentary environments in the research area. |
| 1992-029-FA | 1992-03-02 - 1992-03-04 | WHITE HEATH | Marinna Martini | Recover damaged mooring #389 using WHOI divers. |
| 1992-002-FA | 1992-02-11 - 1992-02-12 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | Continuation of tests of DGPS navigation systems. Recover and redeploy an instrumented tripod, a surface mooring, and a near surface current meter. Sediment samples collected with hydraulically damped gravity corer and Van Veen grab sampler. |
| 1991-046-FA | 1991-04-27 - 1991-04-27 | VINCIE N | Marinna Martini | Historic fishing vessel dragged and recovered subsurface mooring #369 in Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1990-016-FA | 1990-07-10 - 1990-07-11 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to make long-term measurements of currents and sediment transport in the vicinity of the proposed ocean outfall in Massachusetts Bay. The purpose of this cruise was to recover and redeploy the instrumented moorings. Samples of bottom sediments are collected on each cruise required to service the instruments. This was the third in a series of 6 cruises during the two year period of the present Joint Funding Agreement between the MA Water Resources Authority and the USGS. |
| 1990-002-FA | 1990-03-27 - 1990-03-29 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | The objective of the program is to make long-term measurements of currents and sediment transport in the vicinity of the proposed ocean outfall in Massachusetts Bay. The purpose of this cruise was to recover and redeploy the instrumented moorings. Samples of bottom sediments are collected on each cruise required to service the instruments. This was the second in a series of six cruises during the 2 year period of the present Joint Funding Agreement between the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the USGS. |
| 1989-035-FA | 1989-12-05 - 1989-12-06 | WHITE HEATH | Mike Bothner | To deploy an instrumented tripod, a subsurface mooring, and a near surface current meter from the Coast Guard's large navigation buoy at the approach to Boston Harbor. In addition, sediment samples will be collected with a Van Veen grab sampler at two locations near the proposed offshore outfall for Boston's sewage treatment plant. Objective is to begin long-term monitoring of currents, sediment transport, and physical/chemical characteristics of sediments in western Massachusetts Bay. |
| 1989-006-FA | 1989-04-02 - 1989-04-11 | ANDERSON | Mike Bothner | The primary objective for this cruise is to acquire the first complete sidescan sonar coverage of an 81 square kilometer area that includes the proposed outfall site. Other objectives were to collect high-resolution seismic reflection and bathymetric data throughout the survey area and to collect sediment samples and take photographs and video of the sea floor at specific targets, identified using the sidescan results. |
| 1988-003-FA | 1988-05-04 - 1988-05-05 | ARGO MAINE | Mike Bothner | The purpose of this cruise is to collect sediment cores which will be analyzed for radioisotopes, heavy metals and toxic organic compounds. |
| 1987-020-FA | 1987-05-12 - 1987-05-12 | WHITE HEATH | Brad Butman | To recover three surface buoys with current meters at three location in Massachusetts Bay. The instruments were deployed as part of a study of currents and sediment transport in western Massachusetts Bay, and were deployed in February on the R/V OCEANUS. |
| 1987-011-FA | 1987-04-08 - 1987-04-10 | MARY LOUISE | Brad Butman | Recover 3 tripod systems deployed in western Massachusetts Bay and conduct sidescan sonar surveys at each mooring location to define the local topography and bottom roughness. |
| 1986-034-FA | 1986-02-10 - 1986-02-14 | ASTERIAS | Bill Strahle | Deploy mooring #305 at Site B and moorings 306 and 307 at Site E, Cape Cod Bay. |
| 1979-024-FA | 1979-08-16 - 1979-08-20 | ASTERIAS | Chuck O'Hara | Identify and map the geology and shallow structure of Massachusetts Bay. Assess potential mineral resources, principally sand and gravel. Evaluate feasibility and environmental impact of offshore mining of mineral deposits and offshore disposal of solid waste material. Evaluate potential containment and/or dispersal sites for offshore dumping of harbor dredge-spoil material. Evaluate potential geologic hazards that may impact proposed petroleum pipe line corridors from offshore wells to processing facilities onshore. Determine the geologic framework and Quaternary development of this part of the Atlantic Inner Continental Shelf. Select sites for possible coring in summer 1980. Augment similar data obtained in the Massachusetts Bay inshore area by Raytheon Co. (May 1972, PHIPPS, FA 72001) and further offshore by this office (June 1979, GILLISS Leg 2, FA 79012). |
| 1974-005-FA | 1974-06-18 - 1974-06-23 | ATLANTIC TWIN | Chuck O'Hara Bob Oldale | Obtain vibracores in Cape Cod Bay using Alpine Electric Vibracore System. |
| 1973-004-FA | 1973-06-20 - 1973-07-06 | ASTERIAS | Chuck O'Hara Bob Oldale | Uniboom survey of Cape Cod Bay. |
| 1973-003-FA | 1973-06-08 - 1973-06-18 | ASTERIAS | John Hendricks | New England coastal zone bottom gravity survey. |
| 1971-009-FA | 1971-05-21 - 1971-05-21 | VERRILL, A. E. | John Schlee | |
| 1970-008-FA | 1970-07-20 - 1970-07-24 | VERRILL, A. E. | Dave Folger | Sampling; time series oceanographic measurements; seismic profiling. |