1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 1998-013-FA

Identifier 1998-013-FA
Purpose High-resolution geophysical sea-floor mapping (sidescan, sub-bottom, bathymetry). The cruise will be immediately followed by a sampling leg (FA 98020).
Location New York Bight APEX, New York, New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;
Comments Original Center People field contained: (1st Leg) William Schwab, Tom O'Brien, William Danforth, Dave Foster, Jane Denny, Barry Irwin, Dave Nichols. Project = Mapping of EEZ off NY/NJ Metropolitan Area, Mapping of EEZ off NY/NJ Metropolitan Area Information from Foghorn: SIS-1000, GeoPulse, 15 cubic inch watergun, minisparker, fathometer, ISIS data acquisition, MUDSEIS data acquisition, and DELPH ELICS data acquisition.;
Platform
Alpha & Omega II
100 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1998-09-10
End Caven Point, NJ 1998-09-22
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -74.04098511
East -73.20237091
North 40.61534244
South 40.16313287

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
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jane F Denny
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 7
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 7
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 11
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 4
Water gun (wh) Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1998-013-FA-LN-001-01 DGPS Chirp Field Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-013-FA-LN-001-02 DGPS Water gun Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-013-FA-LN-001-03 DGPS Sidescan sonar Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-013-FA-LN-001-04 DGPS Sparker Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-013-FA-LN-002 DGPS Remastered 6 DVD set of Sidescan-Sonar and DGPS Navigation data. Linda P McCarthy
Chirp navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
Water gun navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
1998-013-FA-SO-001 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 1. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-002 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 2. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-003 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 3. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-004 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 4. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-005 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 5. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-006 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan Data Link - Disk 6. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SO-007 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Remastered 6 DVD of Sidescan-Sonar and DGPS Navigation data. Linda P McCarthy
1998-013-FA-SE-003 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 1. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-004 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 2. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-005 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 3. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-006 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 4. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-007 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 5. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-008 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 6. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-009 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 7. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-010 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 8. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-011 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images, CD 9. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-012 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar 2 remastered dvd of Chirp Subbottom (seg-y) data files and images. Linda P McCarthy
Chirp seismic data SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Linda P McCarthy
1998-013-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Water Gun Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images. William W Danforth
1998-013-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Sparker Subbottom Data - Images only. William W Danforth
Sparker seismic data Single channel hydrophone Linda P McCarthy
Water gun data Single channel hydrophone Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity