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Field Activity Details for field activity 1995-033-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Page Valentine

Affiliate Investigator(s): Larry Mayer - NOAA; John Hughes-Clark - UNB

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sonar: Multibeam, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Continue multibeam bathymetric and sidescan sonar survey of Stellwagen Bank NMS.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Gloucester, MA

End Port/Location: Gloucester, MA

Start Date: 1995-04-02

End Date: 1995-04-26

Equipment Used: Simrad EM 1000, DGPS

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: See FA 96032.

Staff: William Danforth, Page Valentine

Affiliate Staff:
Larry Mayer - NOAA
Eddie Radford - NOS
John Hughes-Clark - UNB

Notes: This Field Activity, originally scheduled for 1995, was rescheduled and concluded in 1996. Information also appears under Field Activity # 96032. Original Center People field contained: Page Valentine, Bill Danforth, and others.
Project = Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project, Stellwagen Bank NMS Mapping Project. VeeAnn canceled this activity and set the dates to 1995 (keeping month and day) so it would show up under 1995.

Location:

Stellwagen Bank region, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.8 South: 42.32 West: -70.6 East: -70.03

Platform(s):


Creed

Publications

Valentine, P.C., and Cross, V.A., 2023, Geospatial datasets of seabed topography, sediment mobility, and the distribution of geologic substrates in quadrangle 5 of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W9BN3S.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Simrad EM 1000 --- Multibeam
DGPS --- Navigation

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