1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2014-072-FA

Identifier 2014-072-FA
Purpose Map the seafloor offshore Fire Island, NY as part of the post-Sandy research efforts
Location Fire Island, New York, Long Island, Atlantic Ocean, United States
Summary seafloor depth and backscatter
Info derived seafloor depth and backscatter
Comments Funding project is GX13LQ00FJ62B
Projects
Platform
Shearwater - Alpine Ocean
LOA 110 feet, beam 39 feet
Itinerary
Start Perth Amboy, NJ 2014-01-01
End Perth Amboy, NJ 2014-03-31
Days in the field 14
Bounds
West -73.92150879
East -72.70233166
North 40.77568856
South 40.49894879

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William W DanforthWilliam C Schwab
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
William C Schwab
Scientist, Staff
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Steve Couch, USACE

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Multibeam

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise log Acquisition and processing logs maintained by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., during U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-072-FA offshore of southern Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder This system was used to acquire swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter. Multibeam 4
DGPS DGPS navigation were collected during survey operations. (These data were collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort. The data reside with Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc.) Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2014-072-FA_FI_Sonar5m R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder 5-meter backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 32-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format). William C Schwab
2014-072-FA_NYB_Sonar5m R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder 5-meter backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of western Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 32-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format). William C Schwab
FI_MB5m_2014 R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder 5-meter swath bathymetric grid collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, Esri binary grid file format). William C Schwab
NYB_MB5m_2014 R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder 5-meter swath bathymetric grid collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of western Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, Esri binary grid file format). William C Schwab
2014-072-FA_Alpine_Logs DGPS Acquisition and processing logs maintained by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., during U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-072-FA offshore of southern Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort. William C Schwab

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity