Field Activity 1983-005-FA

Identifier 1983-005-FA
Alternate names 83-10
Purpose Investigate the ages, causes, and types of mass wasting.
Location Continental Slope and Rise from Alvin Canyon to Baltimore Canyon, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Piston cores: 45.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Jim Booth, Ron Circe, Bud Dahl, Jim Dodd, Ellen Gray, Jack Hampson, Barry Irwin, Greg Miller, Larry Poppe, Rick Rendigs, Kathy Scanlon. Information from Foghorn: Piezometer;piston corer;
Platform
Gyre
Length 182 feet; beam 36 feet.
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1983-08-10
End (port not specified) 1983-08-31
Days in the field 22
Bounds
West -72.86
East -70.74861
North 39.72722
South 36.59278

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators James Booth
Crew members
Gregory K Miller
Scientist, Staff
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
Lawrence J Poppe
Scientist, Staff
Kathryn Scanlon Catanach
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Ronald C. Circe
Scientist, Staff
James Dodd
Scientist, Staff
Hampson, John C., Jr.
Scientist, Staff
Dahl, Alfred
Scientist, Staff
James Booth
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Ellen Gray; Hal Olsen (USGS-Denver); Tom Rice (USGS-Denver); Horst Brandes (University of Rhode Island); Dan Stapleton (University of Rhode Island)

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sampling
Data type: Experiments (biological), Conductivity, Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Geology

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, core locations

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Piezometer Conductivity (no data reported)
Piston corer Geology 1
Integrated Navigation System Navigation 1
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1983-005-FA-SC-001 Piston corer CORE samples Brian Buczkowski
1983-005-FA-LN-001 Integrated Navigation System Digital tape(s) of NV-SAT-INS, Nancy K. Soderberg
1983-005-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1983-005-FA-SE-002 3.5 kHz microfilm of SEE #424 - ALSO GYRE 83-10 3.5 SINGLE-CHANNEL Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity