Summary Information for Field Activity 1996-040-FA

Area of Operations: inner shelf out 5 nm, Fire Island, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: September 04, 1996 to September 24, 1996

Chief scientist: Bill Schwab

Steve Couch - USACOE

Objectives: High-resolution sea floor mapping nearshore Fire Island, New York.

Type of Activity:

Information to be derived:

Summary:

Contact: Jane Denny (jdenny@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier D-40-96-NY. Visit this site for more information.

Related Links: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-295/

- Download 96040.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth

Platform Info:

DIANE G

Publications resulting from these data

Hill, Jenna C., Schwab, William C., and Foster, David S.,2000, Archive of Datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise DIAN 96040, Fire Island, New York, 4-24 September 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-366, 6 CD-ROMs. (Also available at http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/publications/of00-366/)

Hill, Jenna C., Schwab, William C., and Foster, David S.,2000, Archive of Boomer subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise DIAN 96040, Fire Island, New York, 4-15 September, 1996: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-467, 9 CD-ROMs. (Also available at http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/publications/of00-467/)

Schwab, W.C., Thieler, E.R., Denny, J.F., and Danforth, W.W.,2000, Seafloor sediment distribution off southern Long Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-243. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-243/)

Data Types and Locations:

Navigation

Processed navigation

Logs

Navigation log containing lines numbers, start and end times, diskette changes, and data acquisition notes.

Photos

Samples

Seismics

Boomer Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images.

CHIRP Subbottom Data - SEG-Y data files and images.

Data is in the Data Library - contact Data Manager (bbuczkowski@usgs.gov)

Sonar

Video