Field Activity 1995-012-FA

Identifier 1995-012-FA
Alternate names 9511; FERL9511
Purpose Acquire sidescan sonar imagery, sediment samples and video images of the sea bed that will be used to interpret sidescan sonar imagery and compile maps of Stellwagen Bank.
Location Stellwagen Bank, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project, Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project
Platform
Ferrel
133 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1995-10-05
End Boston, MA 1995-10-13
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -70.4121
East -70.06268
North 42.35692
South 42.10071

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Page C Valentine
Crew members
Page C Valentine
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Taylor, Brenton B.
Scientist, Staff
Edwin Roworth
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Soderberg, Nancy K.
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Brad Barr - NMS, NOAA; Peter Auster - NURP/UCONN, NOAA
Affiliate staff CJ Powers - Wesleyan College

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Imagery, Sampling, Location-Elevation
Data type: Sidescan, Video, Photo, Geology, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, daily cruise log narrative, sample site locations.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Klein 531 sidescan Sidescan 1
Video camera - deep sea Video 4
Nikonos camera Photo (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology 3
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1995-012-FA-SE-001 Klein 531 sidescan microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-012-FA-SC-001 Van Veen grab sampler GRAB samples Brian Buczkowski

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
ridges0_SIM2840 Video camera - deep sea Boulder ridges less than 1 m high on the sea floor of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. The boulder ridges were identified using multibeam topographic imagery and backscatter intensity of the seabed and video and photographic images collected from 1994 to 2003. Page C Valentine
ridges1_SIM2840 Video camera - deep sea Boulder ridges greater than or equal to 1 m high on the sea floor of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine region. The boulder ridges were identified using multibeam topographic imagery and backscatter intensity of the seabed and video and photographic images collected from 1994 to 2003. Page C Valentine
sbnmsallsta_SIM2840 Video camera - deep sea Sample and video stations located in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. Stations represent the location of a sediment sample and/or the end of a video transect. Page C Valentine
sbnmsallvid_SIM2840 Video camera - deep sea Video transects of the sea floor in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region. This dataset contains polylines showing extents of video transects documenting seabed characteristics in the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Region off Boston, Massachusetts, an area of approximately 1100 nautical square miles. Page C Valentine
SIM3341_stations_geology Van Veen grab sampler Point shapefile of quadrangle 6 station locations in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary offshore of Boston, Massachusetts where video, photographs and sediment samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2004 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate. Page C Valentine
SIM3341_geologic_interp Van Veen grab sampler Polygon shapefile of the interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 6 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts based on data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2004 Page C Valentine

Datasets not currently associated with specific equipment

Dataset name Description Dataset contact
q5_geologic_interp Interpretation of the seabed geologic substrates in quadrangle 5 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts based on data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2019. Page C Valentine
q5_stations_geology Station locations in quadrangle 5 in Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary offshore of Boston, Massachusetts where video, photographs and sediment samples were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey from 1993-2015 - includes sediment sample analyses and interpreted geologic substrate Page C Valentine

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity