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Summary for Field Activity Number 79035

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Alternate Leg: ID (077)

Area of Operations : Georges Bank, Mid-Atlantic Shelf, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: December 13, 1979 to December 20, 1979

Chief scientist: Brad Butman
   

Objectives: Deploy 5 tripod and current moorings; Recover 3 tripods and current moorings; repair/replace surface buoys; cross-shelf CTDs; grab samples; bathymetric, sidescan survey Great South Channel.

Type of Activity: Mooring work;Physical Oceanography

Information to be derived: Times series data;Suspended Sediment Concentrations;Bathymetric Maps;

Summary: Deployed tripods:5(#183,184,185,186,187 all recovered #80009 OCEANUS 081 May 23-Jun 1, 1980); Deployed current meters:5(#188 no recovery information, fishing boat netted buoys and camera Mar 25, 1980),189,190,192 all recovered #80009 OCEANUS 081 May 23-Jun 1980); Recovered tripods:2(#176,179); Recovered current meters(VACM):5(#179,181,182) CTD:10; XBT:49; Surface salinity samples:57;

USGS Project Number:

Contact: Brad Butman (bbutman@usgs.gov)

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Map for Area of Operations :

Map of field activity boundary.

Platform: OCEANUS

Platform Info:
photo of OCEANUS
OCEANUS
On-Line Resources: Station Descriptions Seismic Line DescriptionsTrack PlotRelated Web Site

The following materials for this field activity are available in the Information Archives:

Comprehensive listing of data items by form :

Inventory #Data TypeFormFormatAmountSourceNatureRemarks
100299BINDER-OPPRNTOUT1LORAN CMONITOR
C 2022-C 2025CASSETTENSTAR4NSTARDIGITAL
FD1465FOLDERPROFILE112K/SSSANALOG

Paper seismic/sidescan bottom profiles:

Inventory #LinesFolderStart TimeEnd TimeProfile TypeRemarks
01465O-N 00108:00 12/14/197908:40 12/14/1979 12K- GR S CHANNEL
01465 00113:02 12/14/197914:53 12/14/1979 12K- GR S CHANNEL
01465 00111:20 12/14/197912:55 12/14/1979 12K- DEPT SURVEYGR S CHANNEL
01465 00120:10 12/14/197921:45 12/14/1979 12K- DEPT SURVEYGR S CHANNEL
01465Q 001: 12/12/1979: 12/12/1979 SSS- DEPT SURVEYGR S CHANNEL

Films (35 and 16mm) containing original data films and archived data microfilm. Original films are stored in the WHOI Data Library/Archive film vault. Cabinet storage is in the USGS-WHSC Data Library/Archive
Inventory #Other #SourceData TypeContentsLocationRemarks
105169183USGS-WHFCBOTTOMPHOTOTRIPOD 183; 19791215-19800529WHOI-DLORIGINAL COLOR
105170184USGS-WHFCBOTTOMPHOTOTRIPOD 184; 19791214-19800527WHOI-DLORIGINAL COLOR
105171185USGS-WHFCBOTTOMPHOTOTRIPOD 185; 19791213-19800527WHOI-DLORIGINAL B+W
105172186USGS-WHFCBOTTOMPHOTOTRIPOD 186; 19791217-19800523WHOI-DLORIGINAL B+W
105173187USGS-WHFCBOTTOMPHOTOTRIPOD 187; 19791219-19800525WHOI-DLORIGINAL COLOR

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