Field Activity 1995-010-FA

Identifier 1995-010-FA
Purpose Sidescan sonar survey to define the bottom sedimentary environments of Long Island Sound.
Location Long Island Sound, Connecticut, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Original Center People field contained: VeeAnn Cross - marine geol., Kenneth Parolski - phys. sci., Richard Rendigs - marine geol., Barbara Seekins - phys. sci. tech., Brendt Taylor - phys. sci. tech. Project = Long Island Sound Marine Geologic Studies, Long Island Sound Marine Geologic Studies Information from cruise report: Datasonics SIS-1000, Chirplink acquisition system, seismic data processing system, Dynacon winch, Benthos DS-7000 acoustic deck set, ORE multibeam, EPC 9800 seismics recorder;
Platform
Anderson
165 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1995-04-04
End Woods Hole, MA 1995-04-12
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -74.0073
East -71.6803
North 41.33509
South 40.80965

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Richard R RendigsHarley J. Knebel
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
VeeAnn A. Cross
Scientist, Staff
Taylor, Brenton B.
Scientist, Staff
Seekins, Barbara A.
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Multibeam, Sidescan, Sub Bottom Profiler

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information including start and end of line locations, trackmap.
Navigation log Navigation log including disk changes and sea conditions.
Navigation log DGPS navigation printout containing one-minute fixes, date, time, latitude, longitude, speed, course, and water depth. Handwritten annotation of line changes.
Navigation log Edited DGPS navigation printout containing one-minute fixes, latitude, longitude, water depth, and layback.
Q-Mips log Q-MIPS log describing file names, line numbers, start and end times, tape numbers, sea conditions, and equipment performance.
Seismic log SIS-1000 sidescan sonar and subbottom equipment configuration, performance log and general log.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan 2
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
ORE multibeam Multibeam (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1995-010-FA-SE-001 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Digital tape(s) of SSS,SBTM Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-010-FA-SO-001 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-010-FA-SO-002 SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Digital tape(s) of SSS,SBTM Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity