Alternate Leg: ID (067) Area of Operations : Mid-Atlantic Shelf, Mud Patch, Georges Bank, Georges Shoal, Little Georges, Great South Channel, United States, North America, North Atlantic Dates: August 6, 1979 to August 13, 1979 Chief scientist: Brad Butman
Objectives: Recover 1 tripod, 3 current moorings; deploy 4 tripods;3 current moorings; repair/replace surface buoys; obtain grab samples at mooring locations, obtain gravity cores at selected sites; XBTs and CTDs; sidescan bedforms on Georges Bank. Type of Activity: Sampling
Mooring work
Seafloor mapping
Information to be derived: Times series data
Samples and Chemical Analysis
Grain size analysis
Suspended Sediment Concentrations
Sea Floor Map
Summary: Instruments recovered: 4current meters,2transmissometers, 1tripod; Georges Bank:#171 (deployed #79002 OCEANUS 056 Mar 6-15, 1979),174,175 (both deployed #79004 OCEANUS 058 Mar 27-29, 1979); Mid-Atlantic:#172 (deployed #79002 OCEANUS 056 Mar 6-15, 1979); Instruments deployed:10 6current meters,2transmissometers, 4tripods; Georges Bank:#176 (recovered #79035 OCEANUS 077 Dec 13-20, 1979),178 (recovered #80001 WHITEFOT Jan 3-23, 1980),181,182 (both recovered #79035 OCEANUS 077 Dec 13-20, 1979); Mid-Atlantic:#177 (recovered #80001 WHITEFOOT Jan 3-23, 1980),179 (recovered #79035 OCEANUS 077 Dec 13-20, 1979), 180 (#80001 WHITEFOOT Jan 3-23, 1980 surface buoy gone, mooring lost): Klein Sidescan, Uniboom survey: Georges Shoal, Little Georges, Great South Channel Hydrographic stations:59 XBT:28; CTD:23; Surface salinity:47; Grab samples:12; Gravity cores:3; Suspended matter(talc:)15; USGS Project Number:
Contact: Stephanie Pfirman ()
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