1990-030-FA (CMHRP activity #1101)

Field Activity 1990-030-FA

Identifier

1990-030-FA

Alternate names

Asterias 90-8-23

Purpose

A camparison of the hydrophone response of the WHOI OBH and USGS OBS to the same shots, and a test of the hard mount of the Tattletale model 6 in the USGS OBS.

Location

Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Comments

Original Center People field contained: Greg Miller, Elizabeth Knapp. Project = OBS Development, OBS Development

Platform

Asterias

Length 46 feet; beam 15 feet 4 inches; draft 4.5 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Woods Hole, MA	1990-08-23
End	Woods Hole, MA	1990-08-23
Days in the field	1

Bounds

West	-70.75
East	-70.71
North	41.57
South	41.51

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

Deborah R Hutchinson

Crew members

Gregory K Miller

Scientist, Staff

Affiliate staff

Elizabeth Knapp; WHOI: Steve Holbrook, Beecher Wooding, Rob Handy

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, purpose, equipment, OBH and OBS deployment locations, shot information, cruise log, and 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
1990-030-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