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Field Activity Details for field activity 2008-034-FA

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Other ID: R-34-08-MA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Lawrence Poppe, Nancy K. Soderberg

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Ground truth NOAA hydrographic survey H11346 of the entrance to Edgartown Harbor with seismic reflection. One day primarily employed the Uniboom system; one day primarily employed the Knudsen Chirp.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 2008-08-18

End Date: 2008-08-20

Equipment Used: Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler, DGPS, Boomer, Single channel hydrophone

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Equipment problems prevented data acquisition on August 18, but 57 km of Knudsen Chirp seismic reflection profiles and 17 km of Uniboom seismic reflection profiles were collected along tracklines on August 19-20.

Staff: David Foster, Thomas O'Brien

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Dave Foster (boat operator); Tom O'Brien (seismic specialist).
Project = Sea and Lake Floor Mapping: Data off Cape Cod, Sea and Lake Floor Mapping: Data off Cape Cod

Location:

Edgartown Harbor, Nantucket Sound, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.44692967 South: 41.38333465 West: -70.55322035 East: -70.43029747

Platform(s):

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Publications

Poppe, L.J., McMullen, K.Y., Foster, D.S., Blackwood, D.S., Williams, S.J., Ackerman, S.D., Moser, M.S., and Glomb, K.A., 2010, Geological interpretation of the sea floor offshore of Edgartown, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20091001.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2008-034-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=2008-034-FA.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom ProfilerKnudsen 3200Sub Bottom Profiler
2008-034-FA-SE-001-01 (Knudsen Chirp seismic reflection, GIS best basic version: processed SEG-Y data.)
Chirp seismic data
2008-034-FA-SE-003 (Raw chirp and boomer hypack segy data.)
2008-034-FA-SE-001-02 (Knudsen Chirp seismic reflection profiles: 16 JPEG profiles from processed Knudsen data.)
DGPS --- Navigation
2008-034-FA-LN-001-01 (Shotpoint and horizontal position extracted from SEG-Y trace headers for both Boomer and Knudson Chirp sub-bottom data.)
Boomer --- Boomer
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
2008-034-FA-SE-002-01 (Boomer seismic reflection, GIS best basic version: SEG-Y data band passed filtered from 500 to 2000 Hz and AGC with 20 ms window length applied.)
2008-034-FA-SE-002-02 (Boomer seismic reflection profiles: 5 JPEG profiles from processed Boomer data.)
Boomer (line 01b001)

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