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

Field Activity 2019-014-FA

Identifier 2019-014-FA
Purpose Test geophysical gear in preparation for 2019 field season
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Cape Cod Bay
Summary A variety of systems were deployed off the R/V Rafael to ensure that the equipment was functioning properly in preparation for the 2019 summer field season, and that no repairs or modifications had to made to the geophysical/navigation gear.
Info derived test results
Comments No data were collected during this field effort.
Projects
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2019-04-15
End Sandwich, MA 2019-06-17
Days in the field 20
Bounds
West -70.51712036
East -70.24383545
North 41.85933357
South 41.71495519

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William W Danforth
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Eric Moore
Scientist, Staff
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Alexander R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
POS-MV Navigation (no data reported)
S-Boom seismic source Boomer (no data reported)
GeoEel 8-channel streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Multichannel, Sparker (no data reported)
Reson T20-P Multibeam, Water column reflectivity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity