Data Archives of the USGS Woods Hole Science Center

Publications

A collection of publications relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1962 to the present. Some related works of associated authors and activities may also be found.

Contact - Andrea Toran (atoran@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Geologic Maps of America's Submerged Lands: Links to maps of the sea floor, including the digital data, displayed on a map of the U.S. east coast.
• Maps: A collection of maps relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1981 to the present.
• Fact Sheets: A collection of fact sheets relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1994 to the present.
• Open File Reports: A collection of Open File Reports relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1994 to the present.
• Abstracts: A collection of abstracts relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1981 to the present.
• Outside Publications: A collection of publications, published outside of the USGS by USGS Woods Hole Science Center authors, relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1983 to the present.
• Search our Bibliography: Search the database of all publications relating to the research of the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1981 to the present.
• Field Activities that have publications available. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.

GIS Information

Our interactive ArcIMS map server with displays on various information layers from a number of USGS research programs, including data layers from the following publications:

Contact - John O'Malley(jo'malley@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

The following is a list of publications, by year or geographic area, containing GIS data that are being served by the USGS, Coastal and Marine Geology Program Internet Map Server (Note: the display is from http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/GISpubs/index.html )

Photographs

A collection of ocean bottom, core, and field activity photographs

Contact - Dann Blackwood (dblackwood@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• USGS Woods Hole Science Center Photo Archive: A collection of photographs of the seafloor and candid scenes taken during various field operations. This collection is indexed and can be searched using key words such as cruise number, a name, a ship name, or field gear.
• Sea-Floor Photography from the Continental Margin Program: A Pictorial Survey of Benthic Character and Habitats Along the U.S. East Coast.
• Photographs of the Sea Floor in Western Massachusetts Bay: A collection of photographs documenting the sea floor characteristics as well as the type and distribution of sea life in Massachusetts Bay.
• Photographs of the Sea Floor Offshore of New York and New Jersey: A collection of photographs of the sea floor and sediment texture data collected as part of studies carried out by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in the New York Bight.
• A Pictorial Survey of the Bedrock Beneath Western Cape Cod, Massachusetts - This report describes the bedrock petrology from 64 well sites drilled between 1998 and 2002 and presents photographs that visually document 57 of the bedrock cores.
• Bottom Photographs of Seabed Habitat and Fauna.
• Annimations/movies - A collection of animations and movies that are used to illustrate results of our scientific investigations.

Sidescan Sonar Data

A collection of sidescan sonar profiles in paper format and digital files.

Contact - Alice Orton (aorton@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Sidescan Sonar Data Resources available on-line. Field Activities that have some sidescan sonar data thumbnails, digitized paper records, and other supporting information. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.

Seismic Data

A collection of mult channel and high-resolution single-channel seismic reflection profiles in paper format and digital SEG-Y files.

Contact - Alice Orton (aorton@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Seismic Data Resources available on-line. Field Activities that have some seismic data thumbnails, digitized paper records, and other supporting information. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.

Geophysical Data

A collection of magnetometer and gravity data on paper and digital media

Contact - Alice Orton (aorton@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Gravity and Magnetic Data Resources available on-line. Field Activities that have digitized paper records, and other supporting information. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.

Time Series Data

A collection of data acquired from our tripods, including current, temperature, pressure, conductivity, light transmission (beam atttenuation) and others.

Contact - Ellyn Montgomery(emontgomery@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Times Series Data Archive : This server contains USGS Moored Time Series Data. Data is available in the raw sample interval, hourly averaged, and low-pass filtered. Variables served includes currents, temperature, pressure, conductivity, light transmission (beam atttenuation) and others.Time range: 1975 - present.
• Time Series Data Resources available on-line. Field Activities that have some supporting time series information. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.
• - Download whsc_timeseries.kmz to see where we collected time series data using Google Earth.

Samples

A collection of sediment cores and rock samples.

Contact - Brian Buczkowski (bbuczkowski@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• Sample Archive : The archive serves the scientific community through sample data storage and organization, to provide accurate answers to their inquiries regarding sample metadata, and to protect the physical integrety of these samples.
• Sample Data Resources available on-line. Field Activities that have some supporting time series information. This page requires the Google Earth plugin on your web browser to display the map. Also this page will be slow loading to get all of the images.
• - Download samples.kml to see where we have collected samples using Google Earth.
• Lake Pontchartrain Basin--bottom sediments and related environmental resources, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1634 2002
• usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118
• usSEABED: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 146
• dbSEABED: an information processing system for Marine Substrates An Information Processing System for Marine Substrates

Sediment Texture

A compilation of sediment grain-size data and lithologic descriptions.

Contact - Larry Poppe (lpoppe@usgs.gov) Woods Hole Science Center, USGS

• GIS Data Catalog: Archived sediment grain-size data produced during 1955-2011 by the Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center’s Sedimentation Lab. Catalog also includes an interpretive overview of sediment distribution along the U.S. east coast. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1001
• Continental Margin Program (Hathaway Data Set)-Database of sediment sample information acquired along the U.S. East coast from 1962 to 1970 by joint USGS/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reconnaissance effort.
• Surficial Sediment Data from the Gulf of Maine, Georges Bank, and Vicinity, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 03-001
• usSEABED: Atlantic Coast Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 118
• usSEABED: Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean (Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands) Offshore Surficial Sediment Data Release, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 146
• dbSEABED: an information processing system for Marine Substrates An Information Processing System for Marine Substrates
• Sample processing procedures, U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1001

Other Indexes

Other links to data collections. Google images are provided to illustrate where the WHSC has conducted field operations. These images contain operations where navigation data is available.

• WHSC Field Activities: A Calendar based collection of research related field activities conducted by the United States Geological Survey, Woods Hole, MA dating from 1965 to the present.
• CMGP Infobank: A description of the field activities for the entire Coastal and Marine Geology
• - Download whsc60.kmz to see where we collected data in the 1960's using Google Earth.
• - Download whsc70.kmz to see where we collected data in the 1970's using Google Earth.
• - Download whsc80.kmz to see where we collected data in the 1980's using Google Earth.
• - Download whsc90.kmz to see where we collected data in the 1990's using Google Earth.
• - Download whsc00.kmz to see where we collected data in the 2000's using Google Earth.

Search the Data Archives

Search our field activity database for information about data we have collected.
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