| Identifier | 1994-023-FA | ||||||||
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| Alternate names | 94-18 | ||||||||
| Purpose | Re-survey a sidescan sonar survey from 1991 to document changes inflicted by Hurricane Bob and 2 major winter storms; build a sonar mosaic; obtain camera tows, box cores and grab samples. | ||||||||
| Location | Block Island Sound, Rhode Island, United States, North America, North Atlantic; | ||||||||
| Summary | Sidescan sonar: 124 km sq; 3.5 kHz sub-bottom: 884 km; Digital bathymetry: 884 km (Contact USGS); Camera tows: 12; 35 mm slides; Box cores: 23; Van Veen grabs: 211. | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map; | ||||||||
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| Organization |
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | David C Twichell | ||||||||
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| Affiliate principal | Neal W. Driscoll - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory | ||||||||
| Affiliate staff | Elizabeth Elliot - Wesleyan; Parker Hackett - U. VT; Barbara Hecker - Hecker Environmental Consultants; John Ladd - Hudson Highlands Museum; Earl Young - WHOI |
| Data category: | Sampling, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sonar, Seismics |
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| Data type: | Biology, Geology, Photo, Navigation, Sidescan, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam |
| Name | Description |
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| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, cruise summary, line start and end information, camera tow information, sample locations, trackmap. |
| Cruise report | Chief Scientist's report (text format) including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, cruise summary, line start and end information, camera tow information, sample locations, trackmap. |
| Q-Mips log | Q-MIPS log containing files names, start and ends times for lines, acquisition notes. |
| Sidescan log | Sidescan-sonar log containing file names, start and ends times for lines, equipment configuration, ship movement, acquisition notes, geological observations. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| Box corer | Biology, Geology | (no data reported) | |
| Camera- deep sea | Photo | (no data reported) | |
| DGPS | Navigation | 1 | |
| Klein 531 sidescan | Sidescan | 1 | |
| Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system | Sidescan | (no data reported) | |
| ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler | Sub Bottom Profiler | (no data reported) | |
| ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| Van Veen grab sampler | Geology | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 1994-023-FA-LN-001 | DGPS | Navigation trackline plot for field activity 94023 | Nancy K. Soderberg |
| 1994-023-FA-SO-001 | Klein 531 sidescan | Digital tape(s) of SSS/3.5K L1-9, SSS/3.5K L10-23, SSS/3.5K L23-37, SSS/3.5K L38-51, SSS/3.5K L52-56, SSS/3.5K L57-58, | Nancy K. Soderberg |
