Field Activity 1996-004-FA

Identifier 1996-004-FA
Purpose Assess the shallow sediment framework (continuation of regional environmental study of New York Bight area).
Location inner Continental Shelf, New York Bight Apex, Fire Island, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Original Center People field contained: William Schwab, Tom O'Brien, Barry Irwin, William Danforth, Shawn Dadisman, Dave Nichols, Linda Lotto, Jeremy Loss, Jane Denny, Eric Haase, Ken Parolski, Ed Roworth, VeeAnn Cross, Michael Casso. Project = EEZ Sea Floor Mapping: NY/NJ Metropolitan Area, EEZ Sea Floor Mapping: NY/NJ Metropolitan Area Information from Foghorn: Datasonics SIS-1000 Sea floor Mapping System, 15 in3 watergun (2-channel), ODOM 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiler, GeoPulse boomer sub-bottom profiler, Fathometer, Sediment grab sampler, and Camera system;
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Platform
Seaward Explorer
Length: 105 feet
Itinerary
Start Caven Point, NJ 1996-05-01
End Woods Hole, MA 1996-06-09
Days in the field 39
Bounds
West -73.97918701
East -73.01269228
North 40.67346345
South 40.15182105

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William C Schwab
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
William C Schwab
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
Michael Casso
Scientist, Staff
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
VeeAnn A. Cross
Scientist, Staff
Haase, Eric
Scientist, Staff
Edwin Roworth
Scientist, Staff
Loss, Jeremy
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Lotto, Linda
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jane F Denny
Specialist, Information
Affiliate staff Shawn Dadisman; Mead Allison - TAMU, Stefan E. Ioannou - U. Toronto, Sarah Pratt - Rutgers, Benjamin Raken - Wesleyan U.

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam, Boomer, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 6
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
Water gun (wh) Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
Grab sampler Biology, Geology 1
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 2
Benthos model 372 camera and strobe Photo (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 5
GeoPulse uniboom Boomer (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1996-004-FA-LN-001-01 DGPS Ship's trackmap. Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-004-FA-LN-002-01 DGPS Processed navigation Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-004-FA-LN-003 DGPS DGPS navigation printout. Nancy K. Soderberg
Boomer navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
Chirp navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
Water gun navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
1996-004-FA-SO-001 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan sonar data Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-004-FA-SC-001 Grab sampler GRAB samples Brian Buczkowski
1996-004-FA-SE-002-03 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP subbottom data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
Chirp seismic data SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Linda P McCarthy
1996-004-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( H2O) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-004-FA-SE-002-01 Single channel hydrophone Water Gun Data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
1996-004-FA-SE-002-02 Single channel hydrophone Boomer subbottom data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
Boomer seismic data Single channel hydrophone Boomer subbottom data - SEG-Y format. Linda P McCarthy
Water gun data Single channel hydrophone Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity