1973-005-FA (CMHRP activity #454)

Field Activity 1973-005-FA

Identifier

1973-005-FA

Alternate names

ASTR 73OCT

Purpose

Uniboom survey.

Location

Buzzards Bay, Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Lines 1-35 were collected during this cruise. Line 36 was run 2 Dec. 1974; Line 37 was run 3 Dec. 1974; Line 39 was run 19 June 1975. Man days at sea: 27 TOTAL, 22 USGS.

Comments

See log for narratives.

Platform

Asterias

Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Woods Hole, MA	1973-10-01
End	Woods Hole, MA	1973-10-12
Days in the field	12

Bounds

West	-71.19475728
East	-70.62316599
North	41.71689138
South	41.3527594

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

James Robb

Crew members

Chuck O'Hara	Scientist, Staff
Hall, Raymond E.	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

L. Setlow (MA Div. of Mineral Res.)

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type:	Navigation, Boomer

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise log	Composite Cruise Log (pdf file) ASTERIAS-Buzzards Bay cruise log containing seismic and navigation entries from October 1-12, 1973(FA 73005); December 2-3,1974 (FA 74017); and June 19-30, 1975 (FA 75011).

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
EG&G 234	Boomer	(no data reported)
Epsco LORAN-C	Navigation	1
Single channel hydrophone	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler	4

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1973-005-FA-NL-001-01	Epsco LORAN-C	Composite Cruise Log (pdf file) ASTERIAS-Buzzards Bay cruise log containing seismic and navigation entries from October 1-12, 1973(FA 73005); December 2-3,1974 (FA 74017); and June 19-30, 1975 (FA 75011).	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-005-FA-SE-001-01	Single channel hydrophone	scanned record section of Line 16	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-005-FA-SE-001-02	Single channel hydrophone	scanned record section of Line 17	Nancy K. Soderberg
1973-005-FA-SE-002	Single channel hydrophone	microfilm of LINES 1,2,26,27,30-32	Nancy K. Soderberg
SEGY data	Single channel hydrophone		Linda P McCarthy