Field Activity 1981-018-FA

Identifier 1981-018-FA
Alternate names 81-3
Purpose Map glacial and post-glacial sediments and bedrock.
Location continental shelf between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Newburyport, Massachusetts, Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Uniboom data: 480 km; Sidescan data: 325 km; Magnetics: 150 km; 3.5 kHz data:
Comments Original Center People field contained: Kenneth Parloski, Boat operator; Frank Jennings, Boat operator; Jack Connell, Technician. Project = Geophysical study of glacial deposits and bedrock on the inner continental shelf of New Hampshire, Geophysical study of glacial deposits and bedrock on the inner continental shelf of New Hampshire Information from Foghorn: Sidescan sonar system;Proton magnetometer;Seismic profiler;3.5 kHz profiler;
Platform
Neecho
38 feet
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1981-06-19
End (port not specified) 1981-06-30
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -70.42
East -70.2
North 43.2
South 42.48

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kenneth Parolski
Crew members
Frank Jennings
Scientist, Staff
Connell, Jack
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Francis S. Birch, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of NH
Affiliate staff Francis S. Birch, Associate Professor of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire; Wang Guo-jiang, graduate student, University of New Hampshire

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Magnetics, Navigation, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report of ship movement, equipment and data acquisition notes, personnel, core location information, track chart.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 1
Boomer Boomer (no data reported)
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
1981-018-FA-SO-001 Sidescan sonar microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-018-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation trackline plot for field activity 81018 Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-018-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1981-018-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity