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

Field Activity 2012-005-FA

Identifier 2012-005-FA
Purpose Chirp and side-scan cruise
Location Mid-Atlantic Bight, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Summary almost 1000 km of chirp and side scan data collected around the Baltimore, Washington, and Norfolk canyons
Comments Project = NRC/Tsunami Landslide,
Projects
Platform
Tiki XIV
80 feet
Itinerary
Start Ocean City MD 2012-05-20
End Ocean City, MD 2012-05-28
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -73.8281
East -70.13672
North 38.27269
South 35.24562

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
Obelcz, Jeffrey
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Obelcz, Jeffrey
Specialist, Information
Eric Moore
Specialist, Information
Charles R Worley
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Multichannel, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Edgetech Sidescan sonar Sidescan (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity