Other ID: R-1-08-CD
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: Sidescan, Sonar: Sound Velocity, Sonar: Interferometric
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Complete sea floor mapping in western Cape Cod Bay.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Green Harbor, MA
End Port/Location: Green Harbor, MA
Start Date: 2008-04-28
End Date: 2008-05-09
Equipment Used: Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler, Real Time Kinematic GPS, SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz, Klein 3000, Sensor - SVP
Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 7 survey days of data collection.
Staff: Brian Andrews, Walter Barnhardt, Emile Bergeron, William Danforth, Barry Irwin, Charles Worley
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Raw data are stored on 1) //Teramac/tr9/08002/raw 2) DVDs 1 copy in Library at MOF, 1 Copy in BDA's office.
Project = Mapping Cape Cod Bay and the South Shore, Mapping Cape Cod Bay and the South Shore
Location:
Western Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 42.1 | South: 41.92 | West: -70.65 | East: -70.5 |
Platform(s):
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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.
FAN 2008-002-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=2008-002-FA.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler | Knudsen 3200 | Sub Bottom Profiler | 2008-002-FA-SE-001-01 (PROCESSED DATA) Chirp seismic data 2008-002-FA-SE-001-02 (PUBLISHED DATA: Seismic profiles (jpg), Seismic Shots (shapefile), and seismic tracklines (shapefile).) |
| Real Time Kinematic GPS | --- | Navigation | 2008-002-FA-LN-001-01 (Hypack navigation data: 66 lines.) |
| SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | --- | Interferometric | 2008-002-FA-BA-001-02 (5-m ASCII raster of SWATHplus Interferometric bathymetry data.) Bathymetry GIS data 2008-002-FA-BA-001-01 (Processed-SWATHplus Interferometric bathymetry tracklines.) |
| Klein 3000 | --- | Sidescan | Sidescan mosaic 2008-002-FA-SO-001-01 (Processed Klein backscatter: 1-m sidescan sonar mosaic of survey area.) |
| Sensor - SVP | --- | Sound Velocity |
