Field Activity 1999-048-FA

Identifier 1999-048-FA
Purpose Site survey to test and evaluate boomer/sparker array in shallow water and to complete survey started in 1998.
Location Popham Beach, Maine; nearshore, Casco Bay, Gulf of Maine, Maine, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Kenneth Parolski - mobe/demobe/operations/scientific. Project = Popham Beach, Popham Beach
Platform
Old Duff
45 feet coastal lobster boat
Itinerary
Start Popham Beach, ME 1999-08-31
End Popham Beach, ME 1999-09-01
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -69.91695441
East -69.77244665
North 43.75718134
South 43.65346593

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kenneth Parolski
Crew members
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Kenneth Parolski
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Ilya Buynevich, Boston University
Affiliate staff Duncan Fitgerald, Ilya Buynevich - Boston University

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Seismic log Seismic Log: technicians' handwritten notes about seismic data collection for Aug. 31st and Sep. 1st. Includes a trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
GeoPulse uniboom Boomer (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 1
P-code GPS Navigation 3

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1999-048-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Seismic subbottom data: CD-ROM, possibly made by J. Hill, with Boomer subbottom data in QMIPS format. Nancy K. Soderberg
1999-048-FA-LN-001 P-code GPS Shot point navigation for Lines 1-6 and 8-13. Nancy K. Soderberg
1999-048-FA-LN-002 P-code GPS Trackmap: Hand-annotated trackmap for collection of seismic data. Nancy K. Soderberg
1999-048-FA-LN-003 P-code GPS CD ROM disk of FIELD BOOMER GPS PCODE, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity