2008-001-FA (CMHRP activity #2083)

Field Activity 2008-001-FA

Identifier

2008-001-FA

Alternate names

M-1-08-NR

Purpose

Map Diamond Shoals, NC.

Location

Diamond Shoals, Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

Research cruise. Collected multichannel seismic data (watergun source), high-resolution sub-bottom (CHIRP and boomer), sidescan sonar, and interferometric bathymetry and backscatter.

Info derived

Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps;

Comments

Outbound travel day 22 June. First mobilization day 23 June. Return travel day 12 July. GPS reference station being surveyed in under field activity 08019, April 2008. Project = Carolinas: Sediment Transport, Carolinas: Sediment Transport

URL

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2008/07/meetings3.html

Platform

Megan T Miller

100 feet

Itinerary

Start	Atlantic Beach, NC	2008-06-22
End	Atlantic Beach, NC	2008-07-11
Days in the field	19

Bounds

West	-76.6
East	-75.1
North	35.3
South	34.3

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

E. Robert Thieler

Crew members

William W Danforth	Scientist, Staff
Emily Himmelstoss	Scientist, Staff
E. Robert Thieler	Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien	Scientist, Staff
David S Foster	Scientist, Staff
Emile Bergeron	Scientist, Staff
Philip J Bernard	Scientist, Staff
Charles R Worley	Scientist, Staff
Berube, Patrick	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

William W Danforth

Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category:	Imagery, Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type:	Photo, Navigation, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sub Bottom Profiler, Interferometric, Multibeam, Boomer, Sidescan, Multichannel

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Multichannel seismics	Multichannel	(no data reported)
Sidescan sonar	Sidescan	(no data reported)
Boomer	Boomer	(no data reported)
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz	Interferometric	(no data reported)
Real Time Kinematic GPS	Navigation	(no data reported)
Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i	Sub Bottom Profiler	1
Water gun (wh)	Air Gun / Water Gun	(no data reported)
Digital camera	Photo	(no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
isopach_modsand_NC_innershelf	Edgetech chirp subbottom profiler 512i	Isopach grid of the modern marine sand above the top of Pleistocene surface along the inner shelf from Virginia border to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina (modsand, ESRI binary grid, 100 m cellsize, UTM Zone 18N, WGS 84)	E. Robert Thieler