Field Activity 1979-011-FA

Identifier 1979-011-FA
Alternate names GS 7903-1
Purpose Test and evaluate geophysical systems to be used during the summer field season, including integrated navigation system, marine gravimeter; 3.5 kHz array, sparker, airguns, multichannel streamer, magnetometer, and refraction equipment.
Location Atlantic continental shelf, Miami, Florida to Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Discontinuous data due to testing equipment under various conditions.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Richard Sylwester - Ch. Sci.; Robert Bowles, James Dodd, Dave Folger, Alan Goodman, Barry Irwin, John Larson, Gerard McCarthy, James Sullivan. Project = Test Cruise, Test Cruise
Platform
James M Gilliss
208 feet
Itinerary
Start Miami, FL 1979-05-23
End Woods Hole, MA 1979-05-30
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -80.25
East -70.6
North 41.5
South 25.75

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Richard Sylwester
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
David Folger
Scientist, Staff
Robert Bowles
Scientist, Staff
James Dodd
Scientist, Staff
Larson, John
Scientist, Staff
Alan Goodman
Scientist, Staff
Richard Sylwester
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Gerard McCarthy, James Sullivan; D&M: Ian Watson; EPC LABS: George O'Keefe; WHOI: David Gever, Keith Van der Heidt, David Mason, Tom O'Brien, Daniel Shaughnessey; SEI: Lee Stihl.

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Magnetics, Photo, Navigation, Multichannel, Sonobuoy, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist’s report with a description of the cruise (when, where, vessel), personnel listing, equipment and trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
Seismic refraction Sonobuoy (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Integrated Navigation System Navigation 2
35 mm camera Photo 1
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 4

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1979-011-FA-LN-001 Integrated Navigation System Digital tape(s) of NV-INS, NV-FINAL, NV-INS-FINAL, Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-LN-001-01 Integrated Navigation System Navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-PH-001 35 mm camera Gillis shipyard photo Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( AIR) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1979-011-FA-SE-004-01 Single channel hydrophone Paper record section of Lines 1, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity