Field Activity 1986-023-FA

Identifier 1986-023-FA
Alternate names LANG 86-1
Purpose Offshore survey using high-resolution geophysical equipment to collaborate with previously collected vibracores. Data will be used to assess area for quality sand to be used as nourishment for Virginia Beach.
Location Cape Henry to Rudee Inlet, Virginia Beach, Virginia, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Approx. 150 km of continuous data were collected.
Comments There were three legs of this cruise: Oct. 7-10 (Leg 1); Nov. 9-20 (Leg 2); Dec. 8-13 (Leg 3). Project = Sand Inventory Investigation Offshore VA Beach, VA, Sand Inventory Investigation Offshore VA Beach, VA
Platform
Langley
44 x 15 x 4 -foot twin screw, fiberglass hulled vessel.
Itinerary
Start Gloucester Point, VA 1986-10-07
End 1986-10-10
Days in the field 3
Bounds
West -76
East -75.8
North 36.8
South 36.6

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators S. Jeffress WilliamsRonald C. Circe
Crew members
S. Jeffress Williams
Scientist, Staff
Ronald C. Circe
Scientist, Staff
Wertz, Rob
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Don Wright - VIMS; Bob Gamish - VIMS; Mal Green - VIMS, Australian grad student; Lauro Calliari - VIMS, Brazilian grad student; Jae Kyung Oh - Visiting Professor from South Korea to VIMS

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated data and trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker 1
Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Navigation 4
ORE GeoPulse Boomer (no data reported)
Humminbird fishfinder Single Beam 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1986-023-FA-SE-001 Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-LN-001 Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Navigation trackline plot for field activity 86023 Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-LN-001-01 Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Composite trackline map with line numbers for LANGLEY 86-1 (FA 86023), HOLTON 86-1 (FA 86029) and HOLTON 86-2 (FA 86031) Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-LN-002 Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Floppy disk(s) containing NV-MEGAPULSE, NV-MEGAPULSE, NV-MEGAPULSE, NV-MEGAPULSE, Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-LN-003 Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Digital tape(s) of NV-BTHY-MINIRANGR, RAW NV, Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-BA-001 Humminbird fishfinder Digital tape(s) of NV-BTHY-MINIRANGR, RAW NV, Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-023-FA-BA-002 Humminbird fishfinder Digital tape(s) of NV-BTHY-MINIRANGR, RAW NV, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity