Field Activity 1997-011-FA

Identifier 1997-011-FA
Purpose High-resolution sea floor mapping investigation along the inner shelf south of Long Island, New York.
Location New York inner shelf, Fire Island, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = Sand Resources, Long Island, NY, Inner Shelf, Sand Resources, Long Island, NY, Inner Shelf
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Platform
Diane G
103 feet
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 1997-05-05
End Woods Hole, MA 1997-05-26
Days in the field 20
Bounds
West -73.5203567
East -72.36968994
North 40.86829543
South 40.50985497

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William C Schwab
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
William C Schwab
Scientist, Staff
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
VeeAnn A. Cross
Scientist, Staff
Edwin Roworth
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Jane F Denny
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Steve Couch - USACOE, New York District
Affiliate staff Mike Torresan (CMG, Menlo Park); Paul Gayes (Coastal Carolina U.), Pat Ealy (Coastal Carolina U.)

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Visual Identification
Data type: Boomer, Experiments (biological), Surveys (biological), Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam, Species ID, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Channel 2 when recorded. Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone ITI streamer, channel 1. Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 6
Boomer A Geopulse or Huntec electro-mechanical source was used. Boomer (no data reported)
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Sub Bottom Profiler 2
DGPS Navigation 3
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar Sidescan (no data reported)
Echosounder Single Beam (no data reported)
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology (no data reported)
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1997-011-FA-SE-001-01 Single channel hydrophone Boomer Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
1997-011-FA-SE-001-02 Single channel hydrophone Boomer Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
1997-011-FA-SE-001-03 Single channel hydrophone Sparker Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images. David S Foster
1997-011-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone Remastered 3 DVD set, Boomer and Sparker subbottom data. Linda P McCarthy
Boomer seismic data Single channel hydrophone SEG-Y boomer seismic-reflection data. Linda P McCarthy
Sparker seismic data Single channel hydrophone SEG-Y sparker seismic-reflection data Linda P McCarthy
1997-011-FA-SE-001-04 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images. Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-011-FA-SE-003 SIS1000 Chirp Sonar Remastered 1-DVD, Datasonics Chirp subbbottom data Linda P McCarthy
1997-011-FA-LN-001 DGPS Chirp Field Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps William W Danforth
1997-011-FA-LN-002 DGPS Boomer and Sparker Field Navigation Data and Shotpoint Maps William W Danforth
Nav data DGPS Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity