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

Field Activity 2016-017-FA

Identifier 2016-017-FA
Purpose Bathymetric, backscatter and sub-bottom mapping offshore of Town Neck Beach (
Location Town Neck Beach, Sandwich
Summary Bathymetric, backscatter and sub-bottom data acquired
Info derived bathymetry, backscatter, sub-bottom data, samples
Comments Full Staffing TBD
Projects
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2016-05-16
End Sandwich, MA 2016-05-27
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -70.50544739
East -70.45463562
North 41.78897693
South 41.75799552

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Seth Ackerman
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Interferometric, Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Interferometric 3
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Sub Bottom Profiler 3
Sensor - MVP30 (Odim) Sound Velocity (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2016-017-FA_Backscatter SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Backscatter imagery collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA (GeoTIFF image) Seth Ackerman
2016-017-FA_Bathymetry2m_NAVD88 SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz 2-meter bathymetric data collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA (bathymetry GeoTIFF) Seth Ackerman
2016-017-FA_SWATHplusTracklines SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz Survey lines along which swath sonar (bathymetric and backscatter) data were collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA Seth Ackerman
2016-017-FA_SeismicImages Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler PNG images of each chirp seismic profile collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA
2016-017-FA_SeismicShot500 Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Shotpoint navigation at a 500-shot interval for chirp seismic-reflection data collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA Seth Ackerman
2016-017-FA_SeismicTracklines Knudsen CHIRP Sub-bottom Profiler Survey lines along which seismic reflection data were collected in 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach Sandwich, Massachusetts during field activity 2016-017-FA Seth Ackerman

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity