2012-031-FA (CMHRP activity #2429)

Field Activity 2012-031-FA

Identifier

2012-031-FA

Purpose

Deploy ocean bottom seismometers to record shear wave velocity of shallow sediments

Location

Georges Bank, United States, North America, North Atlantic;, Southern New England, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Summary

12 OBS deployed as planned. Will be picked up in October at which point data will be offloaded

Comments

Data will be curated by WHOI and sent to IRIS-DMC, as is done with all OBS data. I put myself as data curator because one cannot submit without it. Please don't bug me. Project = Marine Tech/Sea Floor Mapping,

Platform

Connecticut

Length, molded: 90 feet; Beam: 26 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Woods Hole	2012-07-06
End	Woods Hole	2012-07-08
Days in the field	3

Bounds

West	-71
East	-70.9
North	39.9
South	39.8

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

Uri Ten Brink

Crew members

Information specialist(s)

Uri Ten Brink

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

Jeff McGuire, WHOI

Affiliate staff

Tim Kane Dan Kot

Data types and categories

Data category:	Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type:	Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment	Usage description	Data types	Datasets
Ocean Bottom Seismometer		Ocean Bottom Seismometer	1
DGPS		Navigation	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
2012-031-FA-SE-001	Ocean Bottom Seismometer	Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) data. Instruments were deployed under this field activity number. OBS were retrieved under field activity number 2012-050-FA. (Nov. 29, 2012 - Dec. 2, 2012) Please refer to retrieval field activity number for more information concerning data.	Claudia Flores