Field Activity 1977-014-FA

Identifier 1977-014-FA
Purpose Test and evaluate equipment.
Location Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary All of the systems (sparker, steramer, amplifier-filter) worked extremely well and will be used on a survey in May or June on the Rhapahannock River. Additional work on the sparker will include packaging it in a waterproof container and completing the electrodeless sparker transducer.
Platform
Asterias
Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1977-04-12
End (port not specified) 1977-04-13
Bounds
West -71.3694
East -68.33496
North 42.74325
South 41.01307

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Richard Sylwester
Crew members
Chuck O'Hara
Scientist, Staff
Richard Sylwester
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Soderberg, Nancy K.
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics
Data type: Sparker

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity