Field Activity 1980-027-FA

Identifier 1980-027-FA
Alternate names EN-056
Purpose Collect piston and gravity cores for environmental and hazards analyses of the Georges Bank and Baltimore Canyon slope and rise areas.
Location Georges Bank and Baltimore Canyon OCS lease areas, Wilmington Canyon, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary This cruise report included two legs: Georges Bank, departing Narragansett, RI on 09/24/1980 and returning to Woods Hole, MA, and Baltimore Canyon, departing Woods Hole, MA on 10/02/1980 and returning to Narragansett, RI. Gravity cores: 26; Piston cores: 28.
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis;
Comments Original Center People field contained: GEORGES BANK LEG - 09/24/1980: Jim Booth, Dorothy Marks, Lawrence Poppe, Wayne Ferrebee, Kathy Scanlon, Richard Rendigs; BALTIMORE CANYON LEG - 10/02/1980: Jim Booth, Lawrence Poppe, Wayne Ferrebee, Richard Rendigs, Paul Bowker.
Platform
Endeavor
Length 185 feet; beam 33 feet/ draft 18 feet 6 inches (aft).
Itinerary
Start Narragansett, RI 1980-09-24
End Narragansett, RI 1980-10-16
Days in the field 23
Bounds
West -73.0167
East -67.28333
North 40.35
South 38.61667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators James Booth
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Lawrence J Poppe
Scientist, Staff
Kathryn Scanlon Catanach
Scientist, Staff
Ferrebee, Wayne
Scientist, Staff
Bowker, Paul
Scientist, Staff
Marks, Dorothy
Scientist, Staff
James Booth
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff GEORGES BANK LEG - 09/24/1980: Richard Farrow, USGS-Corpus Christi; Thomas Rice, USGS-Corpus Christi; Ronald Circe, USGS-Corpus Christi; Terry Lerch, USGS-Reston; Dennis Ligon, USGS-Reston; Skip Pelletier, WHOI, Woods Hole; Harold Garbeil, WHOI, Woods Hole; David Walsh, URI, Narragansett Bay; Wayne Fissett, URI, Narragansett Bay; Steve Imms, URI, Narragansett Bay; BALTIMORE CANYON LEG - 10/02/1980; Richard Farrow, USGS-Corpus Christi; Thomas Rice, USGS-Corpus Christi; Bonnie McGregor, USGS-Fisher Island; Ronald Circe, USGS-Corpus Christi; David Schultz, USGS-Reston; Sara Eisner, USGS-Reston; Richard von Herzen, WHOI, Woods Hole; Skip Pelletier, WHOI, Woods Hole; David Walsh, URI, Narragansett Bay; Wayne Fissett, URI, Narragansett Bay; Steve Imms, URI, Narragansett Bay

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar, Sampling
Data type: Experiments (biological), Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel list, equipment, station locations including core recovery length.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Piston corer Geology (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 2
Loran-C Navigation 2
Echosounder Single Beam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1980-027-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-027-FA-SE-002 3.5 kHz microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-027-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation trackline plot for field activity 80027 Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-027-FA-LN-002 Loran-C Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-NSTAR, NV,BT, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, Nancy K. Soderberg
1980-027-FA-BA-001 Echosounder Digital tape(s) of BT, NV-NSTAR, NV,BT, NV-NSTAR-FINAL, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity