Field Activity 1979-006-FA

Identifier 1979-006-FA
Alternate names NE-1-79
Purpose To study the development of barrier islands; to document the frequency and rate of migration of inlets that breach barrier islands; to define the characteristics of shoreface ridges on a barrier island; and to prepare the boat and personnel for field operations this spring and summer.
Location Monomoy Island, Nauset Beach, outer Cape barrier islands, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Uniboom records: 98 km; Sidescan sonar records: 98 km.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Sally Wood (Cruise Curator); Alfred Bud Dahl; Dave Folger; Frank Jennings; Paul Loud; Charles O'Hara; Kenneth Parolski; Charles Paull. Project = Small Boat Surveys, Small Boat Surveys
Platform
Neecho
38 feet
Itinerary
Start Stage Harbor, Chatham, MA 1979-04-16
End Chatham Harbor, Chatham, MA 1979-04-20
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -69.9833
East -69.9
North 41.86667
South 41.51667

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William P DillonHarley J. Knebel
Crew members
Chuck O'Hara
Scientist, Staff
Needell, Sally
Scientist, Staff
David Folger
Scientist, Staff
Frank Jennings
Scientist, Staff
Loud, Paul
Scientist, Staff
Paull, Charles
Scientist, Staff
Dahl, Alfred
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Needell, Sally
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Cruise report including description of operation, personnel, equipment, cruise narrative. Also includes a location map, trackmap, and listing of paper rolls for each acquisition system and what lines are contained on which rolls.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
Boomer Boomer (no data reported)
Motorola Mini-Ranger III Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 1
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1979-006-FA-SO-001 Sidescan sonar microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-006-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation trackline plot for field activity 79006 Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-006-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-006-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity