Field Activity 1991-031-FA

Identifier 1991-031-FA
Purpose Shoreface coring operations and surface sediment sampling using SCUBA.
Location Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary SCUBA at all stations. Percussion cores: 23; Push cores: 10; Grab samples: 31; Surface grab samples: 18; Subsurface grab samples: 9; Video observations: 28 (4? tapes).
Info derived Grain size analysis;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Rob Thieler - Asst. Sci., USGS/Duke U.; Dave Nichols - ET/Navigation.
Platform
Elusive
46 feet
Itinerary
Start Wrightsville Beach, NC 1991-09-16
End Wrightsville Beach, NC 1991-09-20
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -77.80174255
East -77.71719626
North 34.23135856
South 34.17349647

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators E. Robert Thieler
Crew members
E. Robert Thieler
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal William J. Cleary, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Affiliate staff William J. Cleary - Ch. Sci., UNCW; Andrew Shepard - Sci. Dir./Diver, NURC; Glenn Taylor - Divemaster, NURC

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Imagery, Location-Elevation
Data type: Biology, Geology, Video, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, station and sample log for each station, map of station locations.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Video camera - deep sea Video (no data reported)
Percussion core Geology (no data reported)
Motorola Mini-Ranger III Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1991-031-FA-LN-001-01 Loran-C Loran C navigation files recorded during each sampling station. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity