Field Activity NOT ASSIGNED-FA-1776345172

Identifier NOT ASSIGNED-FA-1776345172
Alternate names R/V O'Brien Systems Testing
Purpose To conduct systems testing and verification of science gear before field season deployment.
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Nantucket Sound, Vineyard Sound, Buzzards Bay, Falmouth Harbor
Info derived Geophysical seabed characteristics using; Teledyne T20 Dual Head Multibeam data; Chirp 216KHZ sub-bottom profiler; High resolution hydrophone streamer profiles.
Projects
Platform
O'Brien
Length 26 feet; marine grade aluminum
Itinerary
Start Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth, MA 2026-05-01
End Falmouth Harbor, Falmouth, MA 2026-05-15
Days in the field 15
Bounds
West -71.03759766
East -69.70825195
North 41.76721469
South 41.01721058

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Alexander R Nichols
Crew members

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Multichannel, Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Reson T20-P Multibeam, Water column reflectivity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity