Field Activity 2004-045-FA

Identifier 2004-045-FA
Purpose Map inner shelf in response to Hurricane Alex.
Location Raleigh Bay, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Mapped sea floor previously mapped in 2003 and 2004. Collected sidescan, swath bathymetry and EM3000 backscatter data.
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Emile Bergeron, marine tech. Project = North Carolina Regional Coastal Erosion Studies, North Carolina Regional Coastal Erosion Studies Information from Foghorn: EM3000 multibeam, DGPS and RTK navigation. Sidescan-Klein;
Platform
4-points
Length 28 feet
Itinerary
Start Ocracoke, NC 2004-08-06
End Ocracoke, NC 2004-08-08
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -76
East -75.9
North 35.1
South 34.9

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators E. Robert Thieler
Crew members
Emile Bergeron
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Hammar-Klose, Erika
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sidescan, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Simrad EM 3000 Multibeam (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Real Time Kinematic GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Klein 531 sidescan Sidescan (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity