Field Activity 1993-009-FA

Identifier 1993-009-FA
Alternate names DLWR 93-05; DE9305
Purpose Locate fine-grained sediments in Hudson Shelf Valley with sidescan sonar and video surveys, bottom grabs; determine extent of contamination via grabs, cores.
Location Hudson Shelf Valley, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary 59 tracklines.
Comments Original Center People field contained: John Schlee - Co-Ch. Sci., Marilyn ten Brink - Co-Ch. Sci., Barry Irwin, Rick Rendigs, Ken Parolski, Eric Schmuck, Kris Caylor, Peter Cattaneo. Information from Foghorn: Sidescan sonar, Osprey video-camera-Van Veen sampler, hydrostatically damped corer, gravity corer;
Platform
Delaware II
Length: 155 ft (47 m); Beam: 30 ft 2 in (9.19 m).
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1993-05-22
End Woods Hole, MA 1993-05-27
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -73.9
East -72.75201619
North 40.5
South 39.74380253

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators John SchleeMarilyn ten Brink
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Schmuck, Eric A.
Scientist, Staff
John Schlee
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Marilyn ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Mead Allison - SUNY
Affiliate staff Kris Caylor, Peter Cattaneo; Mead Allison - SUNY

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Biological Field Study, Imagery, Sampling, Visual Identification, Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Sub Bottom Profiler, Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Biology, Geology, Species ID, Navigation, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's daily narrative including of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, sidescan sonar and seismic line list, trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Slow corer Geology (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Sidescan sonar Sidescan 3
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology 1
GPS (wh) Navigation 2
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1993-009-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-009-FA-SO-001 Sidescan sonar Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-009-FA-SO-002 Sidescan sonar microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-009-FA-SO-003 Sidescan sonar Digital tapes of SSS LINES 1-59: inventory #6164, 6165, 6166, and 6167. Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-009-FA-SC-001 Gravity corer CORE, GRAB samples Brian Buczkowski
1993-009-FA-LN-001 GPS (wh) Navigation trackline plot for field activity 93009 Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-009-FA-LN-002-01 GPS (wh) Raw navigation data files. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity