Field Activity 2019-332-FA

Identifier 2019-332-FA
Purpose Geophysical shoreface mapping offshore of Cedar Island, VA.
Location Cedar Island, VA, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Summary Collected 64 CHIRP/SBB lines (all planned lines completed) as well as 138 MBB lines; nearly full coverage, except in extreme nearshore waters.
Info derived Seafloor depth, seafloor texture, Holocene stratigraphy.
Comments Assigned Processor: Chelsea Stalk Completion deadline May 2020
Projects
Platform
Sallenger
26' Parker
Itinerary
Start Wachapreague, VA 2019-08-07
End Wachapreague, VA 2019-08-20
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -75.64318389
East -75.55571705
North 37.69243582
South 37.5780712
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jennifer L Miselis
Crew members
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Lance E Thornton
Scientist, Staff
Chelsea A Stalk
Scientist, Staff
Andrew S Farmer
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Arnell S Forde
Specialist, Information
Chelsea A Stalk
Specialist, Information
Andrew S Farmer
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam, Single Beam, Sound Velocity

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Survey Equipment Description
2019-332-FA_logs (document not focused on specific equipment) Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, acquisition geometry, and geophysical operations log

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Chirp 512i Sub Bottom Profiler 4
Multibeam Bathymetry System Multibeam 2
Castaway-CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single Beam 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2019-332-FA_gis Chirp 512i Geospatial data Arnell S Forde
2019-332-FA_nav Chirp 512i Navigation data Arnell S Forde
2019-332-FA_segy Chirp 512i Digital chirp subbottom trace data Arnell S Forde
2019-332-FA_seisimag Chirp 512i Processed subbottom profile images Arnell S Forde
Cedar_Island_2019_MBES_Backscatter.zip Multibeam Bathymetry System Processed acoustic intensity backscatter mosaic, derived from the 1-meter grid, provided as a 32-bit float GeoTIFF in WGS84 (G1762) Chelsea A Stalk
Cedar_Island_2019_MBES_xyz.zip Multibeam Bathymetry System Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid height and NAD83 NAVD88 orthometric height using GEIOD12B Chelsea A Stalk
Cedar_Island_2019_SBES_Tracklines.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry tracklines in WGS84 (G1762) Chelsea A Stalk
Cedar_Island_2019_SBES_xyz.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry xyz data in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid height and NAD83 NAVD88 orthometric height using GEOID12B Chelsea A Stalk

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity