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

Field Activity 2001-005-FA

Identifier 2001-005-FA
Alternate names IB S-2-01-NR
Purpose Map inner-shelf.
Location outer banks, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Good cruise.
Comments Original Center People field contained: O'Brien, Nichols, Irwin, Denny, Hammar-Klose, Polloni, Thieler; Capone (mob and drive truck to Charleston). Project = Coastal Sedimentary System: Northern NC, Coastal Sedimentary System: Northern NC Information from Foghorn: SIS-1000, Submetrix sidescan, GeoPulse boomer, fathometer, DGPS, Van Veen sampler, data acquisiton and processing vans;
Related activities
1999-045-FA: Project
Platform
Atlantic Surveyor
Length 110 feet; beam 26 feet; draft 9 feet.
Itinerary
Start Norfolk, VA 2001-07-01
End Wilmington, NC 2001-07-18
Days in the field 18
Bounds
West -75.84227622
East -75.3582735
North 36.50031464
South 35.69200328

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators E. Robert Thieler
Crew members
E. Robert Thieler
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Polloni, Christopher F.
Scientist, Staff
Hammar-Klose, Erika
Scientist, Staff
Capone, Mark
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Hammar-Klose, Erika
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam, Sidescan, Interferometric, Boomer

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise log PDF of Excel spreadsheet cruise log which contains times, line and filenames, equipment configuration and performance, comments.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 10
GeoPulse uniboom Boomer (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 2
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 12
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Interferometric 1
Digital camera Photo 1
Van Veen grab sampler Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
isb2001005_seismic_images Single channel hydrophone JPEG images of boomer seismic data from inner shelf off North Carolina E. Robert Thieler
isb2001005_shots Single channel hydrophone Shot points of boomer seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina. David S Foster
isb2001005_tracklines Single channel hydrophone Tracklines of boomer seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina. David S Foster
iss2001005_tracklines SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Tracklines of sidescan sonar data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina. E. Robert Thieler
Chirp seismic data SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Linda P McCarthy
isc2001005_chirp_seismic_images SIS1000 Chirp Sonar JPEG images of Chirp seismic data from inner shelf off North Carolina E. Robert Thieler
isc2001005_shots SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Shot points of Chirp seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina. David S Foster
isc2001005_tracklines SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Tracklines of Chirp seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina. E. Robert Thieler
2001-005-FA-PH-001 Digital camera Deck photos of field activity operations Charles R Worley

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
NC_Pliocene_surface_Q0 Single channel hydrophone Structure grid of the depth to the Pliocene surface (Q0), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q0depth,ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_QuaterneraryIsopach_q0thick Single channel hydrophone Isopach grid of the Quaternary sediment thickness, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q0thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_surface_Q30 Single channel hydrophone Structure grid of the depth to the Pleistocene surface (Q30), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q30depth, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_thick_q30thick Single channel hydrophone Grid of the thickness of sediment above the Pleistocene surface Q30, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q30thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM, Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_surface_Q50 Single channel hydrophone Structure grid of the depth to the Pleistocene surface (Q50), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q50depth, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_thickness_Q50 Single channel hydrophone Grid of the thickness of sediment above the Pleistocene surface Q50, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q50thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_depth_Q99 Single channel hydrophone Structure grid of the depth to the top of Pleistocene (Q99), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q99depth, ESRI binary grid, 400 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
composite_nHatteras_backscatter SIS1000 Sidescan sonar 4 meter sidescan-sonar GeoTIFF image of inner shelf from Virginia border to Cape Hatteras, NC (composite_nhatt.tif, UTM, Zone 18N, WGS84) E. Robert Thieler
isopach_modsand_NC_innershelf SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Isopach grid of the modern marine sand above the top of Pleistocene surface along the inner shelf from Virginia border to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (modsand, ESRI binary grid, 100 m cellsize, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pliocene_surface_Q0 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Structure grid of the depth to the Pliocene surface (Q0), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q0depth,ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_QuaterneraryIsopach_q0thick SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Isopach grid of the Quaternary sediment thickness, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q0thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_surface_Q30 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Structure grid of the depth to the Pleistocene surface (Q30), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q30depth, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_thick_q30thick SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Grid of the thickness of sediment above the Pleistocene surface Q30, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q30thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM, Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_surface_Q50 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Structure grid of the depth to the Pleistocene surface (Q50), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q50depth, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_thickness_Q50 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Grid of the thickness of sediment above the Pleistocene surface Q50, inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q50thick, ESRI binary grid, 200 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NC_Pleistocene_depth_Q99 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Structure grid of the depth to the top of Pleistocene (Q99), inner shelf and back-barrier from Virginia border to Cape Lookout, North Carolina (q99depth, ESRI binary grid, 400 m cell size, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
composite_nHatteras_bathymetry SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz 40 meter Esri binary grid of single beam and swath bathymetry of inner continental shelf north of Cape Hatteras, NC to Virginia border (nhatt, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84) E. Robert Thieler
NorthCarolina_grabsamples Van Veen grab sampler Location and analysis information for grab samples from inner continental shelf of North Carolina during U.S. Geological Survey research cruises 1999-045-FA, 2001-005-FA, 2002-013-FA, 2004-003-FA. E. Robert Thieler

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
composite_nHatteras_backscatter_enhanced 4 meter sidescan-sonar GeoTIFF image of inner shelf with stretched histogram, from Virginia border to Cape Hatteras, NC (composite_nhatt_str.tif, UTM, Zone 18N, WGS84) E. Robert Thieler

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity