Field Activity 2008-018-FA

Identifier 2008-018-FA
Alternate names S-1A-08-SC
Purpose Swath bathymetry mapping in area of Santa Barbara Channel Coal Oil Point seeps simultaneously with ZEPHYR sediment sampling and ROV videography cruise (FA 08005).
Location Santa Barbara Channel, Goleta, California, United States, North America, North Pacific;
Summary Collected SWATH bathymetry digital data around oil seeps, trying to detect gas seeps in the water column.
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;
Comments Project = Sources, Transportation, and Fate of Natural Oil and Gas Seepages, Sources, Transportation, and Fate of Natural Oil and Gas Seepages
Platform
Shearwater
62-foot high-speed Teknicraft catamaran; beam 24 feet; Draft 3 feet.
Itinerary
Start Santa Barbara, CA 2008-03-10
End Santa Barbara, CA 2008-03-19
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -119.917
East -119.81666
North 34.41666
South 34.35

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Charles R Worley
Crew members
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Charles R Worley
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Thomas Lorenson - Menlo Park
Affiliate staff Thomas Lorenson, Chief Scientist - Menlo Park

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SEA SWATHplus-L 117 kHz Interferometric 1
Sidescan sonar Sidescan (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2008-018-FA-BA-001 SEA SWATHplus-L 117 kHz Swath bathymetric data. PARTNER

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity