1982-021-FA (CMHRP activity #783)

Field Activity 1982-021-FA

Identifier

1982-021-FA

Alternate names

82-5

Purpose

Map bedrock, glacial sediments, and post-glacial sediments on the continental shelf between Portsmouth, NH and Newburyport, MA out to the 100 m contour.

Location

New Hampshire Continental Shelf, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Newburyport, Massachusetts, Gulf of Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Uniboom data: 600 km; Magnetics: 600 km.

Info derived

Sea floor map;

Comments

Original Center People field contained: Jack Connell, boat operator; Eric Kelcher, 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

Platform

Neecho

38 feet

Itinerary

Start	New Castle, NH Coast Guard Station	1982-07-07
End	New Castle, NH Coast Guard Station	1982-07-19
Days in the field	10

Bounds

West	-70.5
East	-70.25
North	43.04
South	42.44

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Connell, Jack

Crew members

Connell, Jack

Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Francis S. (Frank) Birch, Associate Professor, U. of New Hampshire

Affiliate staff

Eric Kelcher, technician; Francis S. Birch - Associate Professor, U. of New Hampshire (UNH); Jay A. Borkland, UNH

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Brief cruise report including personnel, equipment, short cruise description, and a trackmap.
Cruise log	Handwritten Chief Scientist's cruise log containing equipment description with configuration, narrative, and 5-min position data.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Sidescan sonar	Sidescan	(no data reported)
Marine magnetometer	Magnetics	(no data reported)
Boomer	Boomer	(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
1982-021-FA-LN-001	Loran-C	Navigation trackline plot for field activity 82021	Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-021-FA-SE-001	Single channel hydrophone	Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( UNI) for lines	Nancy K. Soderberg
1982-021-FA-SE-002	Single channel hydrophone	microfilm of	Nancy K. Soderberg