Science verification cruise for the R/V Armstrong, surveying new seeps etc.
Location
Atlantic margin, Charleston to Baltimore Canyon
Summary
Multibeam Echosounder: Acquired ~2672 line kms of multibeam bathymetry and backscatter using Kongsberg EM122 and EM712. Total sea floor coverage ~ 3236 km2. Single Beam Scientific Echosounder: Acquired ~ 2672 line kms of water column sonar using a Simrad EK80 (38-kHz)
Info derived
bathymetry, methane plume characteristics in the water column
Comments
This was science verification for the R/V Armstrong based on a small proposal that Ruppel wrote with Lizarralde. Danforth and Baldwin were shipboard and collected EK80, EM710, and EM122 data.
Additional data sets from R/V Neil Armstrong Science Verification Leg 2 AR1-06 are available from the rolling deck repository at: http://www.rvdata.us/catalog/AR1-06
