2010-021-FA (CMHRP activity #2256)

Field Activity 2010-021-FA

Identifier

2010-021-FA

Purpose

Image landslides and buried submarine canyons.

Location

New England continental slope, North Atlantic;

Summary

Source: 6 kiloJoule Sparker, 6 tips, towed at 3 m depth. Receiver: 48-channel Geo-Eel seismic cable. 6.25 m group interval. Cable towed at 3-3.5 m depth. Shot interval: 6 sec. Recording interval: 1-0.5 msec. Record length: 4.5-5.5 sec.

Info derived

Bathymetric maps; Morphology; Landslide and canyon development; Core siting

Comments

Project = Potential Tsunami Sources, Potential Tsunami Sources

Platform

Tiki XIV

80 feet

Itinerary

Start	Ocean City, MD	2010-05-22
End	Atlantic City, NJ	2010-05-29
Days in the field	7

Bounds

West	-72.3
East	-70.5
North	40.1
South	39.2

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Uri Ten Brink

Crew members

Jason Chaytor	Scientist, Staff
Claudia Flores	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

Mike Barth - contractor; Carol Reiss - marine mammal observer

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Seismics, Visual Identification, Other
Data type:	Navigation, Multichannel, Sparker, Species ID

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Protected Species Log	Protected Species Observer report and table of observations.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
DGPS	Navigation	(no data reported)
Multichannel seismics	Multichannel	(no data reported)
Visual Mammal ID	Species ID	1
Sparker	Sparker	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2010-021-FA-NL-001	Visual Mammal ID	Protected Species Observer report and table of observations.	Claudia Flores