1995-014-FA (CMHRP activity #1320)

Field Activity 1995-014-FA

Identifier

1995-014-FA

Alternate names

CHAP95-1

Purpose

Map surficial geology of deep-water Oculina reef area and observe grouper spawning aggregations using acoustics and video.

Location

Oculina Bank, Florida, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Comments

Project = Oculina Bank, Oculina Bank

Platform

Chapman

Length 127 feet; beam 29.6 feet; draft 14 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Port Canaveral, FL	1995-02-27
End	Port Canaveral, FL	1995-03-08
Days in the field	7

Bounds

West	-80.0625639
East	-79.92067503
North	28.40187024
South	27.4698289

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

Kathryn Scanlon Catanach

Crew members

Thomas F O'Brien	Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Churchill Grimes - NMFS

Affiliate staff

Chris Koenig - NMFS, Mark Grace - NMFS, Chris Gledhill - NMFS, Cliff Harper - SSC, ROV

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Chief scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, sidescan and chirp seismic line list.
Data inventory	Chief Scientist's inventory of field data.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar	Sidescan	3
GPS (wh)	Navigation	1
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar	Sub Bottom Profiler	2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1995-014-FA-SO-001	SIS1000 Sidescan sonar	Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-014-FA-SO-002	SIS1000 Sidescan sonar	microfilm of	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-014-FA-SO-003	SIS1000 Sidescan sonar	Digital tape(s) of SSS/SBTM	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-014-FA-LN-001-01	GPS (wh)	Raw GPS navigation data.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-014-FA-SE-001	SIS1000 Chirp Sonar	microfilm of	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-014-FA-SE-002	SIS1000 Chirp Sonar	Digital tape(s) of SSS/SBTM L1	Nancy K. Soderberg