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

Field Activity 2009-004-FA

Identifier 2009-004-FA
Alternate names RB09-02; B-4-09-NA
Purpose Map with multibeam sonar the upper continental slope.
Location New England, New York and New Jersey continental slope, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary 5700 line km of multibeam bathymetry and associated chirp sub-bottom seismic profiling.
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Project = Potential Tsunami Sources, Potential Tsunami Sources
URL
Platform
Ronald H. Brown
Length: 274 feet; Beam: 53 feet
Itinerary
Start Charleston, SC 2009-05-11
End Charleston, SC 2009-05-25
Days in the field 15
Bounds
West -76
East -64.5
North 41.5
South 34.25

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
David C Twichell
Scientist, Staff
Uri Ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Elizabeth P Pendleton
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal NOAA-PMEL
Affiliate staff LTJG Lindsey Waller, NOAA-PMEL; Leslie Sauter, Brian Kennedy, Shanon Hoy, Emily Allen, Will Sauter - College of Charleston

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Seismics, Location-Elevation, Environmental Data
Data type: Multibeam, Sub Bottom Profiler, Navigation, Temperature

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBeam 2112 Multibeam (no data reported)
Bathy2100 Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
XBT Temperature (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity