Field Activity 2008-016-FA

Identifier 2008-016-FA
Alternate names R-16-08-MW
Purpose WHSC/SFMG will map the geologic framework of the upper St. Clair River and surficial geology of the river/lake bed. Stratigraphic mapping will include depth to bedrock and the stratigraphy of Quaternary glacial and post glacial deposits. Surficial mapping will delineate sediment texture and morphology of the river/lake bed. The geologic framework will support ongoing studies that are quantifying changes in river bed elevation, specifically, identifying the extent of river bed erosion. Geophysical systems will be deployed to acoustically image the geologic framework. Video, photography and sampling of the river bed will be used to verify the surficial geologic interpretation.
Location St. Clair River, Lake Huron, Michigan, Ontario, United States, Canada, North America;
Summary Data were collected over a five day period. Data include seismic reflection profiles: 79.8 km of 3.5 kHz Chirp data recorded in SEG-Y format, 58.5 km of Boomer seismic reflection profiles recorded in SEG-Y format, 79.8 km of Submetrix bathymetric data, 79.8 km of Klein sidescan sonar data in XTF format, 453 digital bottom photographs in JPEG format, 310 minutes of bottom video, and 17 bottom sediment samples.
Info derived Samples and chemical analysis; Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Jane Denny - Data processing, GIS and integration; Dave Foster - Scientist, data processing; Barry Irwin - Boat operation, navigation; Chuck Worley - Technician. Project = Marine Technology: St. Clair River Geophysical Survey, Marine Technology: St. Clair River Geophysical Survey
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Port Huron, MI 2008-05-29
End Port Huron, MI 2008-06-02
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -82.51594507
East -82.40005636
North 43.01700416
South 42.65292746

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David S Foster
Crew members
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
David S Foster
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, IJC
Affiliate staff Greg Kennedy, USGS-Ann Arbor, Observer; Peter Ashmore, Univ. of Western Ontario, Observer

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Visual Identification
Data type: Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Interferometric, Multibeam, Sidescan, Species ID, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Digital camera Photo (no data reported)
Klein 3000 Sidescan 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Knudsen 3200 Sub Bottom Profiler 4
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Interferometric 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Sidescan mosaic Klein 3000 Linda P McCarthy
2008-016-FA-SC-001 SeaBOSS 17 bottom sediment samples David S Foster
2008-016-FA-SE-001-01 Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler SIOSeis was used to apply a 1-2-1 trace mix and t square gain (Sioseis type 3, alpa 1.75) before writing ieee floating point SEG-Y files. David S Foster
2008-016-FA-SE-002-01 Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler SioSeis was used to apply a bandpass filter of 500-2000 Hz and an AGC with a window of 20 ms before writing to SEG-Y files. David S Foster
Boomer seismic data Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Linda P McCarthy
Chirp seismic data Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Linda P McCarthy
Bathymetry GIS data SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity