Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): Jason Chaytor
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Brian Buczkowski
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Piston coring in support of ONR acoustics/USGS RSL & hazards projects
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
Start Date: 2016-04-17
End Date: 2016-04-25
Equipment Used: Gravity corer, Alpine Vibracorer, Piston corer, Other, DGPS
Information to be Derived: sedimentary records
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 56 piston & 35 trigger cores (26 vibracores & 10 gravity cores from EN577 Leg 2 - part of same ONR project, stored in WHCMSC)
Staff: Brian Buczkowski, Alexander Nichols, Allison Paquette
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Changed FA from Sebago Lake mapping (canceled for this FY) to this project
Location:
Southern New England Mud Patch
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 41.07572789 | South: 40.82532204 | West: -70.7629 | East: -70.30476888 |
Platform(s):
 Endeavor |
Boggess, A.A., Buczkowski, B.J., and Chaytor, J.D., 2021, Sedimentological and geotechnical analyses of marine sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ZYK3PX.
Chaytor, J.D., Ballard, M.S, Buczkowski, B.J., Goff, J.A., Lee, K.M., Reed, A.H., and Boggess, A.A., 2021, Measurements of Geologic Characteristics and Geophysical Properties of Sediments from the New England Mud Patch: IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering, 1-28 p doi:10.1109/JOE.2021.3101013.
Lee, K.M., Ballard, M.S., Wilson, P.S., Venegas, G.R., Dorgan, K.M., Chaytor, J.D., Direct measurements of acoustic and physical properties in mud and comparison to sediment acoustics models: , Acoustical Society of America 183rd Meeting. Nashville, TN, 5-9 December 2022.
Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Keigwin, L., Chaytor, J.D., Schneider, E., Richtmyer, M., Schmelz, W.J., 2024, Holocene Foraminifera, Climate, and Decelerating Rise in Sea Level on the Mud Patch, Southern New England Continental Shelf. Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 54 (2): 172-187, https://doi.org/10.61551/gsjfr.54.2.172.
Siderius, M., Stevens, B., Higgins, A., Wendeborn, D., Lin, Y.T., Decourcy, B., Chaytor, J.D., New England Shelf Break Acoustic (NESBA) Experiment: Seabed Analysis: , Acoustical Society of America Meeting.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
| Alpine Vibracorer | --- | Geology | |
| Piston corer | USGS piston corer, UT vibracorer, UT gravity corer | Geology | EN577_CarbonContent (Bulk organics and carbonate content of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_Density (Water content and grain density analyses of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_Foram (Foraminifera biostratigraphy of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_GrainSize (Grain size analyses of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_HRMS (High-resolution magnetic susceptibility of sediment cores from the New England collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_SummarySheet (Summary of analytical data for sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_UndrainedShearStrength (Undrained shear strength of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_VisualCoreDescriptions (Visual description sheets of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) EN577_XRD (Raw X-ray diffraction data of cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| DGPS | R/V Endeavor ship mounted DGPS systems | Navigation | EN577_CoreLocations (Collection locations of sediment cores from the New England Mud Patch collected on USGS Field Activity 2016-001-FA) |
