| Identifier | 1997-005-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Sidescan survey of grouper spawning habitat. | ||||||||
| Location | west Florida shelf edge, Florida, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | 100 line-km of boomer data; 1185 line-km of sidescan sonar and 3.5 data. | ||||||||
| Comments | Original Center People field contained: Kathy Scanlon (Ch.Sci.); Ken Parolski (E.T.); Jane Denny (sidescan sonar processing); Scott Harrison (sidescan sonar processing). Project = West Florida Shelf Edge Habitat Mapping, West Florida Shelf Edge Habitat Mapping | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Kathryn Scanlon Catanach | ||||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Churchill Grimes - NOAA | ||||||||
| Affiliate staff | Cliff Harper - NOAA (E.T.) |
| Data category: | Location-Elevation, Sonar, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Boomer, Navigation, Sidescan, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam |
| Name | Description |
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| Navigation log | GPS navigation log containing line number, time, latitude, and longitude. Also includes cruise personnel. |
| Navigation log | Continuation navigation log containing line number, time, latitude, and longitude. Also has slant range and antenna configuration. |
| Sidescan log | Seismic/ISIS field log with line and file names and start and end times. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| GeoPulse uniboom | Boomer | (no data reported) | |
| Single channel hydrophone | Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 | |
| DGPS | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar | Sidescan | 2 | |
| ISIS | Sidescan | (no data reported) | |
| 3.5 kHz | Sub Bottom Profiler | 1 | |
| Echosounder | Single Beam | 1 |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| Sidescan mosaic | Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar | Linda P McCarthy | |
| 1997-005-FA-SE-001 | 3.5 kHz | Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| Bathymetry GIS data | Echosounder | Linda P McCarthy |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| of99-589_1997-005-FAdata | Single channel hydrophone | Shapefiles of data from the west Florida Shelf in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico including sediment data and interpretations of shelf-edge habitats. Dataset include interpretations based on the sidescan mosaic, the sidescan mosaic, seismic-reflection profile images, sediment sample locations, and tracklines. Data are available in geographic and UTM zone 16. | Kathryn Scanlon Catanach |
| of99-589_1997-005-FAdata | Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar | Shapefiles of data from the west Florida Shelf in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico including sediment data and interpretations of shelf-edge habitats. Dataset include interpretations based on the sidescan mosaic, the sidescan mosaic, seismic-reflection profile images, sediment sample locations, and tracklines. Data are available in geographic and UTM zone 16. | Kathryn Scanlon Catanach |
Briere, P.R., Scanlon, K.M., Gledhill, C.T., Koenig, C.C., and Fitzhugh, G., 1999, West Florida Shelf—Sidescan-sonar and sediment data from shelf-edge habitats in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 99-589, CD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr99589.
Scanlon, Kathryn M., Coleman, Felicia C., and Koenig, Christopher C., 2005, Pockmarks on the outer shelf in the northern Gulf of Mexico; gas-release features or habitat modifications by fish?, in Barnes, P.W., and Thomas, J.P., eds., Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing: American Fisheries Society Symposium 41 41, 301-312.
