Field Activity 1986-028-FA

Identifier 1986-028-FA
Purpose This cruise is non-scientific in that the primary objective is to evaluate a data acquisition technique: SAMS (Stationary Array, Moving Source).
Location Vineyard Sound, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Due to poor weather conditions, the experiment was not conducted and no data were collected.
Comments Data derived from pre-cruise report and verbal participant account; no post-cruise report found.
Platform
Neecho
38 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1986-10-31
End Woods Hole, MA 1986-10-31
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -71.25
East -70.75
North 41
South 40.5

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Thomas F O'Brien
Crew members
Deborah R Hutchinson
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
David H Mason
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Kim D. Klitgord
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal M. Purdy (WHOI)
Affiliate staff M. Purdy (WHOI), W. Witzell (WHOI), R. Handy (WHOI), B. Grant (WHOI), L. Gove (WHOI), D. Dubois (WHOI)

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Multichannel, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)
Motorola Mini-Ranger III Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity