Field Activity 1996-018-FA

Identifier 1996-018-FA
Purpose Carry out a single-channel seismic reflection survey of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater.
Location Chesapeake Bay, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Debbie Hutchinson - Co-Ch. Sci., Steve Colman - co-Ch. Sci.; John Evans - watchstander, Barry Irwin - navigation, Jeremy Loss - watchstander, Dave Nichols - seismics, Tom O'Brien - seismics, Nancy Soderberg - curator. Project = Chesapeake Bay, adjacent inner continental shelf, Chesapeake Bay, adjacent inner continental shelf Information from Foghorn: GI watergun system;Water gun;MassComp acquisition system;SIS-1000 sidescan sonar system, 3.5 kHz;Odom echo sounder;Ashtech GPSS XII receiver;Megapulse Accufix D100 receiver;
Platform
Seaward Explorer
Length: 105 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1996-04-21
End Caven Point, NJ 1996-04-30
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -76.5
East -75.5
North 37.75
South 36.75

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Claude (Wylie) W. Poag
Crew members
Deborah R Hutchinson
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Evans, John
Scientist, Staff
Loss, Jeremy
Scientist, Staff
Soderberg, Nancy K.
Scientist, Staff
Stephen Colman
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Ira Block - NGS photographer (Apr. 25-26?)

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Transects, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 1
DGPS Navigation 1
Water gun (wh) Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder Single Beam (no data reported)
Ashtech Z-12 GPS Navigation, Transects (no data reported)
Megapulse Accufix 500 LORAN-C Navigation (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1996-018-FA chirp SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Digital tape(s) of GI GUN L1, GI GUN L2-3, GI GUN L4, GI GUN L4-5, GI GUN L5-10, GI GUN L10-13, GI GUN L13-14, GI GUN L14-17, NO FILES?, GI GUN L1-17 SEGY, H2OGUN L3A, H2OGUN L3A,15A, SSS1000 L3A, SSS1000 L3A,15A, Linda P McCarthy
1996-018-FA-LN-001 DGPS Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPS-EDIT, NAV-DGPS-EDIT, Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-018-FA-SO-001 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Digital tape(s) of GI GUN L1, GI GUN L2-3, GI GUN L4, GI GUN L4-5, GI GUN L5-10, GI GUN L10-13, GI GUN L13-14, GI GUN L14-17, NO FILES?, GI GUN L1-17 SEGY, H2OGUN L3A, H2OGUN L3A,15A, SSS1000 L3A, SSS1000 L3A,15A, Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-018-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( H2O) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-018-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Digital tape(s) of GI GUN L1, GI GUN L2-3, GI GUN L4, GI GUN L4-5, GI GUN L5-10, GI GUN L10-13, GI GUN L13-14, GI GUN L14-17, NO FILES?, GI GUN L1-17 SEGY, H2OGUN L3A, H2OGUN L3A,15A, SSS1000 L3A, SSS1000 L3A,15A, Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-018-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone Digital tape(s) of GI GUN L1, GI GUN L2-3, GI GUN L4, GI GUN L4-5, GI GUN L5-10, GI GUN L10-13, GI GUN L13-14, GI GUN L14-17, NO FILES?, GI GUN L1-17 SEGY, H2OGUN L3A, H2OGUN L3A,15A, SSS1000 L3A, SSS1000 L3A,15A, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity