1998-016-FA (CMHRP activity #1459)

Field Activity 1998-016-FA

Identifier

1998-016-FA

Alternate names

98-1

Purpose

High-resolution seismics and coring, Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Project.

Location

Patuxent River mouth, Rhode River, Parker Creek, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Gravity cores: 3; Long piston cores: 4; Slow piston cores: 7; Kasten core: 1; Mackereth cores: 4 (obtained from separate barge); 3.5 kHz Elics: 100 km; Odom fathometer: 100 km.

Info derived

Morphology;

Comments

Core archives stored at University of Rhode Island. Elics seismic data and Odom data stored in Woods Hole. Original Center People field contained: Steve Colman, John Bratton, co-chiefs; Dave Nichols, ET; Ellen Mecray, coring. Project = Ecosystem History, Chesapeake Bay, Ecosystem History, Chesapeake Bay

Platform

Discovery

Length 51 feet; beam 16 feet; draft 4 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Solomons, MD	1998-06-11
End	Solomons, MD	1998-06-18
Days in the field	6

Bounds

West	-76.55
East	-76.25
North	38.9
South	38.25

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

John F BrattonStephen Colman

Crew members

John F Bratton	Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols	Scientist, Staff
Mecray, Ellen	Scientist, Staff
Stephen Colman	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

Stephen Colman

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

John King - URI

Affiliate staff

Neil Waibel - USGS-Reston, observer; John King, co-chief - URI; Gary Savoie and Fred Boettger, coring techs - URI; Andy Zimmerman, Kasten coring - VIMS

Data types and categories

Data category:	Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type:	Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Kasten corer	Geology	(no data reported)
3.5 kHz	Sub Bottom Profiler	2
Odom Digitrace 200kHz	Single Beam	(no data reported)
DGPS	Navigation	2
Piston corer	Geology	(no data reported)
Gravity corer	Geology	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1998-016-FA-SE-001-01	3.5 kHz	Raw ELICS Data - Raw data for Lines 1-26 in ELICS SEG-Y format.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-016-FA-SE-001-02	3.5 kHz	Uncorrected Raw ELICS Data - Raw data for Lines 1-26 in ELICS SEG-Y format.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-016-FA-LN-001-01	DGPS	Shot Point Navigation - (text files) Navigation files for Lines 1-26.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1998-016-FA-LN-002	DGPS	Floppy disk(s) containing NAV DGPS SAMPLE,	Nancy K. Soderberg