Field Activity 2008-025-FA

Identifier 2008-025-FA
Alternate names R-25-08-NR
Purpose Pre-cruise shoal survey for FA 08001.
Location Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Summary This pre-cruise shoal survey was conducted to delimit shallows on Diamond Shoal (6 meter contour) to allow the R/V MEGAN MILLER to collect data as close to the shoal as possible during FA 08001 (R. Thieler, June - July 2008). Data collected from RTK GPS, HYPACK raw data files, and Knudsen 3.5 will be included in the FA 08001 report.
Info derived Sea floor map;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Barry Irwin - Boat operation, navigation; Dave Nichols - Technician. Project = Carolinas: Sediment Transport, Carolinas: Sediment Transport
URL
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Hatteras, NC 2008-06-08
End Hatteras, NC 2008-06-20
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -76.6
East -75.1
North 35.3
South 34.3

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Barry J Irwin
Crew members
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
E. Robert Thieler
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Real Time Kinematic GPS Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity