Field Activity 2016-037-FA

Identifier 2016-037-FA
Purpose surfical sea floor mapping offshore of Town Neck Beach (MA)
Location Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, MA
Summary seaboss surveys were conducted to evaluate the seafloor composition of the nearshore region of town neck beach
Info derived sea floor sediment samples, sea floor video and photographs
Comments Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2016-017-FA Also staffed by Abigail Ball
Projects
Platform
Rafael
25 feet
Itinerary
Start Sandwich, MA 2016-07-15
End Sandwich, MA 2016-07-15
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.5377
East -70.40252686
North 41.82323848
South 41.72449187

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Seth AckermanChristopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Jane F Denny
Scientist, Staff
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Seth Ackerman
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
WAAS/DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera Mounted on the SEABOSS system. Video 1
SeaBOSS The MiniSEABOSS (SEABed Observation and Sampling System) was used to collect sediment samples with a modified Van Veen sampler and video images of the seabed with GoPro cameras mounted on the frame. Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1
GoPro camera Mounted on the SEABOSS system. Photo, Video 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2016-037-FA_videos SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera Location of bottom video tracklines along with videos collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (MP4 video files and polyline shapefile) Seth Ackerman
2016-037-FA_samples SeaBOSS Grain-size analysis of sediment samples collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich in Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (CSV file and simplified shapefile) Seth Ackerman
2016-037-FA_photos GoPro camera Location of bottom photographs along with images collected in July 2016 by the U.S. Geological Survey off Town Neck Beach, Sandwich, Massachusetts, during field activity 2016-037-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity