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Field Activity Details for field activity 2007-002-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Walter Barnhardt

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Brian Andrews

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Interferometric

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geologic mapping of sea floor (geophysics only).

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2007-07-23

End Date: 2007-08-08

Equipment Used: SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz, Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i, Real Time Kinematic GPS, SEA SWATHplus-L 117 kHz, Klein 3000

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Survey collected 100% coverage with swath bathymetry over an area of approx. 350 km2 in northern Cape Cod Bay. Approx. 1300 line km of sidescan sonar and sub-bottom profiles were also collected. Preliminary data processing took place during survey.

Staff: Ankur Agarwala, Brian Andrews, Wayne Baldwin, Walter Barnhardt, Emile Bergeron, William Danforth, Charles Worley

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Project = Geologic mapping of the Massachusetts inner shelf, Geologic mapping of the Massachusetts inner shelf
Information from Foghorn: SubX interferometric sidescan;EdgeTech 512i sub-bottom profiler;Klein 1000 sidescan sonar;

Location:

Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic,

Boundaries
North: 42.09442942 South: 41.94950434 West: -70.5007364 East: -70.31377778

Platform(s):

photo of Megan T Miller
Megan T Miller

Publications

Andrews, B.D., Ackerman, S.D., Baldwin, W.E., and Barnhardt, W.A., 2010, Geophysical and sampling data from the inner continental shelf—Northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010–1006, 1 DVD-ROM, available at https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20101006.

de La Beaujardière, J., Beegle-Krause, C.J., Bermudez, Luis, Hankin, Steven, Hazard, Lisa, Howlett, Eoin, Le, Steven, Proctor, Roger, Signell, Richard P., Snowden, Derrick, and Thomas, Julie, 2010, Ocean and coastal data management: , Proceedings of OceanObs�09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society (Vol. 2), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison D.E. & Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306. Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009.

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.

Pendleton, E.A., Barnhardt, W.A., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., Schwab, W.C., Andrews, B.D., and Ackerman, S.D., 2015, Sea-floor texture and physiographic zones of the inner continental shelf from Salisbury to Nahant, Massachusetts, including the Merrimack Embayment and Western Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1153, 36 p., 1 appendix, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151153.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2007-002-FA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=2007-002-FA.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz --- Interferometric
Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
2007-002-FA-SE-001 (Raw SEGY data)
Chirp seismic data
Real Time Kinematic GPS --- Navigation
SEA SWATHplus-L 117 kHz --- Interferometric
2007-002-FA-BA-001-02 (PUBLISHED DATA: SWATHPlus bathymetry collected during 07002 is published in USGS OFR 2010-1006 in ArcGIS GRID format as part of a merged grid covering all of the Northern Cape Cod Bay survey area.)
Bathymetry GIS data
Klein 3000 --- Sidescan
Sidescan mosaic

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