USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Science Center, MA Field Activity Page for 94015

Summary for Field Activity Number 94015

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Alternate Leg ID: W16-94

Area of Operations: Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: October 4, 1994 to October 5, 1994

Chief scientist: Mike Bothner

Objectives: 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.

Type of Activity: Sampling
Mooring work

Information to be derived: Time series data
Samples and Chemical Analysis
Grain size analysis
Suspended Sediment Concentrations

Summary: Moorings deployed: 2 (#445 and 446 recovered FA 95017 WHITE HEATH Feb. 24-25, 1995). Moorings recovered: 3 (#440 and 441 deployed FA 94022 WHITE HEATH Jun. 7-8, 1994; #442 deployed FA 94019 WHITE HEATH Jul. 6, 1994). Cores: 13; Van Veen grabs: 3; video transects: 2.

USGS Project Number: 9470-67542

Contact: Mike Bothner (mbothner@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier H-16-94-MY. Visit this site for more information.

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Map for Area of Operations :

Map of field activity boundary.

Platform Info:

WHITE HEATH

Related Resources:	Station Descriptions	Seismic Line Descriptions	Track Plot	Related Web Site

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

Data and publications on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM:

Inventory #	# per set	Data Type	Contents	Author	Year	Report #	Format	Title	Remarks
1857	01/01	GEOL	MASS BAY BOTHNER NOTEBOOKS	BOTHNER MH, CASSO M	20031216			INTERNAL ARCHIVE MASS BAY CORE SAMPLE LOGS 1988-2003
2390	01/01	PO, GEOL	MASS BAY PO, PHOTO 1989-1992	BUTMAN, BOTHNER, ALEXANDER, LIGHTSOM, MARTINI,*	20040000	DDS-0074		INTERNAL ARCHIVE LONG-TERM OCEANOGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS BAY OFFSHORE BOSTON DATA REPORT 1989-2002 VER 2.0	*GUTIERREZ, STRAHLE ; RESTON DUPE WTHT 1989-1998.

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 #	Source	Data Type	Contents	Location	Remarks
105228	445	USGS-WHFC	BOTTOMPHOTO	TRIPOD 445; 19941004-19950215	WHOI-DL	ORIGINAL COLOR

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