Field Activity 1990-029-FA

Identifier 1990-029-FA
Alternate names Asterias 90-8-13
Purpose A qualitative test of overall instrument performance of the USGS OBS and WHOI OBH, including mechanical and electronic components (i.e., full instrument deployment and recovery; recording of small shots at different azimuths and distances).
Location Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = OBS Development, OBS Development
Platform
Asterias
Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1990-08-13
End Woods Hole, MA 1990-08-13
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.75
East -70.71
North 41.57
South 41.51

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Deborah R Hutchinson
Crew members
Gregory K Miller
Scientist, Staff
Deborah R Hutchinson
Scientist, Staff
Marinna A Martini
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff WHOI: Beecher Wooding, Ken Peal

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, equipment, purpose, tabulated information, OBH and OBS deployment locations and shot information. Also has a map of deployment locations.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Navigation 1
Ocean Bottom Seismometer Test cruise only, no data was recorded Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data expected)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1990-029-FA-NL-001 Northstar 6000 LORAN-C Chief Scientist's cruise report with ship movement, personnel, OBS and OBH equipment notes, shot times and locations, and trackmap. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity