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.
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) |
