Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Bradford Butman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Canadian Hydrographic Service; University of New Brunswick
Information Specialist(s): William Danforth
Data Type(s): Sonar: Multibeam, Location-Elevation: Navigation
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Complete multibeam survey of Massachusetts Bay.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Gloucester, MA
End Port/Location: Gloucester, MA
Start Date: 1997-11-19
End Date: 1997-12-01
Equipment Used: Simrad EM 1000, DGPS
Information to be Derived: Bathymetric maps;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 11/19/97 Gloucester; 11/20-24 survey Massachusetts Bay; 11/25-29 engine and weather; 11/30-12/1 survey Massachusetts Bay; 12/1 Gloucester. Cruise terminated due to engine and weather. Single multibeam transects from Massachusetts Bay to Woods Hole and Woods Hole to Montauk, Long Island.
Staff: Bradford Butman, William Danforth, Jessica Baker, Tanya Unger
Affiliate Staff:
John Hughes-Clark (UNB) - Setup and consultation on data acquisition and processing; Normand Doucet (CHS) - Hydrographer
Notes: Original Center People field contained: B. Butman (Chief Scientist), B. Danforth (leadership of data acquistion and processing), T. Unger (data acquistion and processing), J. Baker (data acquisition and processing).
Project = Stellwagen Bank NMS, Massachusetts Bay Experiment, Stellwagen Bank NMS, Massachusetts Bay Experiment
Location:
Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.58 | South: 42.13 | West: -70.91 | East: -70.58 |
Platform(s):
Creed |
Bothner, M.H., and Butman, Bradford (eds.), 2007, Processes influencing the transport and fate of contaminated sediments in the coastal ocean—Boston Harbor and Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1302, 89 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1302.
Butman, B., Hayes, L., Danforth, W.W., and Valentine, P.C., 2003, Backscatter intensity, shaded relief, and sea floor topography of Quadrangle 2 in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2732-C, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2732C.
Butman, B., Hayes, L., Danforth, W.W., and Valentine, P.C., 2003, Shaded relief and sea floor topography of quadrangle 1 in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2731-B, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2731B.
Butman, B., Hayes, L., Danforth, W.W., and Valentine, P.C., 2003, Shaded relief and sea floor topography of Quadrangle 2 in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2732-B, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2732B.
Butman, B., Valentine, P.C., Danforth, W.W., Hayes, L., Serrett, L.A., and Middleton, T.J., 2004, Shaded relief, sea-floor topography, and backscatter intensity of Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2734, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2734.
Butman, B., Valentine, P.C., Middleton, T.J., and Danforth, W.W., 2007, A GIS library of multibeam data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 99, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds99.
Pendleton, E.A., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Ackerman, S.D., Foster, D.S., Andrews, B.D., and Schwab, W.C., 2013, Shallow geology, seafloor texture, and physiographic zones of the Inner Continental Shelf from Nahant to northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1157, 53 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121157.
Valentine, P.C., and Butman, B., 1998, Mapping the sea-floor and biological habitats of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 078-98, https://doi.org/10.3133/fs07898.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simrad EM 1000 | --- | Multibeam | |
| DGPS | --- | Navigation |
