Field Activity 1995-007-FA

Identifier 1995-007-FA
Alternate names SEAX95007
Purpose Assess the shallow sediment framework: the first phase of comprehensive environmental study of the New York Bight area.
Location New York Bight, New York, New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Comments Project = EEZ Mapping NY-NJ, EEZ Mapping NY-NJ
URL
Platform
Seaward Explorer
Length: 105 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1995-05-07
End Toms River, NJ 1995-05-25
Days in the field 18
Bounds
West -73.91
East -73.48
North 40.6
South 40.34

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William C Schwab
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Meade Allison - Texas A&M, Linda Lotto - ECO, Anna Estes - Wesleyan Univ., William Corso - USACOE, Michael Lee - Texas A&M

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Geology, Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, seismic line list, sample locations.
Q-Mips log Watchstanders' handwritten Q-Mips log containing line and file names, start and end times, equipment configuration, data acquisition notes, seafloor characterizations
Q-Mips log Typed Q-Mips log containing line and file names, start and end times, equipment configuration, data acquisition notes, seafloor characterizations
Seismic log Water gun configuration, DGPS navigation, and data acquisition notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 3
DGPS Navigation 5
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 1
Water gun (wh) Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology 1
Boomer Boomer (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1995-007-FA-SE-001 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Digital tape(s) of chirp subbottom Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-007-FA-SE-001-01 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar chirp subbottom data and images David S Foster
Chirp seismic data SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Linda P McCarthy
1995-007-FA-LN-001-01 DGPS Water gun navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-007-FA-LN-001-02 DGPS Sidscan sonar navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-007-FA-LN-001-03 DGPS Chirp sonar navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg
Chirp navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
Water gun navigation DGPS Linda P McCarthy
1995-007-FA-SO-001-01 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan sonar data and images Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-007-FA-SC-001 Van Veen grab sampler GRAB samples Brian Buczkowski
1995-007-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Digital tape(s) of watergun seismics Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-007-FA-SE-002-01 Single channel hydrophone Water gun data and images David S Foster
Water gun data Single channel hydrophone Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity