Field Activity 1997-007-FA

Identifier 1997-007-FA
Purpose Reconnaissance sidescan and high-resolution seismic mapping of the inner shelf in northern Oregon and southern Washington (Tillamook Head, Oregon, to Pt. Grencille, Washington) to map the thickness of the Holocene sand sheet and recent faults.
Location North Oregon / South Washington inner shelf, United States, North America, North Pacific;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Dave Twichell - Chief Scientist; Scott Harrison - St. Pete, watchstander; Kenneth Parolski - Technician; VeeAnn Cross - Sidescan processor. Project = Southwest Washington Erosion Study, Southwest Washington Erosion Study Information from Foghorn: P-code GPS navigation system, EG&G 100-kHz sidescan sonar with ISIS logger, winch, cable, XSONAR, SEISMIC UNIX, GeoPulse sub-bottom profiler with EPC data logger, digital bathymetry, 3.5-kHz sub-bottom profiler logged on paper record;
Related activities
1998-014-FA: Project
Platform
Corliss
56 feet long patrol boat.
Itinerary
Start Grays Harbor, WA 1997-08-25
End Grays Harbor, WA 1997-09-19
Days in the field 17
Bounds
West -124.5
East -123.84216334
North 47.4
South 45.8912758

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David C Twichell
Crew members
David C Twichell
Scientist, Staff
VeeAnn A. Cross
Scientist, Staff
Harrison, Scott
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Curt Peterson - Portland State U.

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan, Single Beam, Boomer

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Navigation log Watchstanders' log containing time, start and end of lines, latitude, longitude, speed, direction, equipment performance and other comments.
Geophysics log Technician's log describing boomer and 3.5 kHz equipment configuration, performance, start and end of files, lines, comments.
Sidescan log ISIS field log with line and file names and start and end times and comments.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Echosounder Single Beam 1
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar Sidescan 2
GPS (wh) Navigation 1
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2
GeoPulse uniboom Boomer (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Bathymetry GIS data Echosounder 10 m bathymetric contours for the Southwest Washington Study area based on NOS hydrographic survey data collected between 1926 and 1930 and supplemented with the southern part of the study area altered based on bathymetry collected on the CRLS 97007 cruise. Used as basemap data for surveying. David C Twichell
1997-007-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
tracks97 Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar CRLS97007 sidescan-sonar track lines on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington coast from U.S. Geological Survey field activity 1997-007-FA David C Twichell
1997-007-FA-LN-001 GPS (wh) Navigation trackline plot for field activity 97007 Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-007-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Raw boomer SEG-Y data collected aboard the RV Corliss on field activity 1997-007-FA off northern Oregon and southern Washington inner continental shelf David S Foster
1997-007-FA-SO-002 Single channel hydrophone 13-cd's of Boomer (EPC data logger), lines 1-47. Linda P McCarthy

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
uenhtif_sscan_SWWashington Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar Enhanced sidescan-sonar TIFF images in a UTM projection on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington. Enhanced lines of sidescan imagery (since no mosaic was attempted), with a resolution of 2 m/pixel. The lines are widely spaced, hence the reason for no mosaic. Requires multiple files (total of 26 files) to cover the areas in 1997 and 1998. David C Twichell

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
sdollars_SWWashington Distribution of sand dollars on the sea floor on the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington. David C Twichell
interp_SWWashington Surficial geology interpretive map from the inner continental shelf off the northern Oregon and southern Washington coast based on sidescan-sonar imagery and sediment samples David C Twichell

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity