Summary for Field Activity Number 78010

Alternate Leg: ID (045)

Area of Operations : Georges Bank, Middle Atlantic Continental Shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: May 10, 1978 to May 18, 1978

Chief scientist: Brad Butman
   

Objectives: Recover 4 tripods(#138,139,140,141,149), 3 current moorings(#144,145,146); deploy 2 tripods(#148,149), 2 current moorings(#150,151) repair/replace surface buoys; obtain piston and hydrostatically damped cores from Mud Patch, south of Martha's Vineyard; collect CTD, XBT and suspended sediment samples.

Type of Activity: Mooring work

Information to be derived:

Summary: Moorings deployed: 4(#148,149,150,151 no recovery information available); Moorings recovered: 7(#138,139,140,141,144,145,146, all deployed #78001 OCEANUS 038 Jan. 19-26, 1978); XBT:80; CTD/transmissions:58; Surface salinity samples:121; Surface grab samples:6; Piston cores:5; Hydrostatically damped cores:5;

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Contact: Brad Butman (bbutman@usgs.gov)