New York Bight Project, water column characterization cruises 1 and 2 of the NOAA Ship Researcher, 4-15 March, 5-14 May 1974

During Spring 1974, two oceanographic cruises were made by the NOAA Ship Researcher in the New York Bight. The cruises were used for deployment and recovery of three bottom-mounted pressure gauges and to collect physical and chemical oceanographic data from the water column. Thirty-one oceanographic stations were occupied on a segment of the continental shelf bounded on the east by Block Island, on the south by Cape May, and extending outward to the edge of the continental shelf. This report presents the corrected water column data from these two cruises and describes the measurement methods and corrections applied to the data.