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Metadata | Documentation of the U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Measurement Database
**By Ellyn T. Montgomery, Marinna A. Martini, Frances L. Lightsom, and Bradford Butman**

**Published 2008; Revised February 2009, Version 2.0 April 2016**
**Figure 1.** Photo of WHSC personnel on the U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tender *Marcus Hanna*              in Massachusetts Bay. Photo: Dann Blackwood
**U.S. Department of the Interior**        SALLY JEWELL, Secretary

**U.S. Geological Survey**        Suzette M. Kimball, Director

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First release: 2008        Revised: February 2009 (ver. 1.1)        Revised: April 2016 (ver. 2.0) 

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**Suggested Citation:**        Montgomery, E.T., Martini, M.A., Lightsom, F.L. and Butman, Bradford, 2016, Documentation of the U.S. Geological Survey Oceanographic Time-Series Measurement Database (ver 2.0, April 2016): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2007–1194, http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ofr20071194.

 

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