USGS - science for a changing world

USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program

Field Activity Details for field activity 1998-015-FA

View new CMGDS report form

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Bradford Butman, William Schwab, Page Valentine

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): William Danforth

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter intensity.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Provincetown, MA

Start Date: 1998-10-27

End Date: 1998-11-24

Equipment Used: Simrad EM 1000, DGPS

Information to be Derived: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter intensity

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor collected using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder in Great South Channel, Hudson Shelf Valley, the Historic Area Remediation Site, and along the south coast of Long Island, New York

Staff: Bradford Butman, William Danforth, Jane Denny, Thomas O'Brien, William Schwab, E. Robert Thieler, Page Valentine

Affiliate Staff:
Larry Mayer - NOS; John Hughes-Clark - UNB

Notes: Cruise will be in three legs: (1) Hudson Shelf Valley; (2) southern shore of Long Island; (3) Great South Channel.

Location:

Great South Channel, Empire Knight, Massachusetts Bay, Massachusetts, Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), Hudson Shelf Valley, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.113 South: 39.71 West: -73.9 East: -69.84

Platform(s):


Creed

Publications

Butman, B., 2002, Mapping the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS) offshore of New York City: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 001-02, https://doi.org/10.3133/fs00102.

Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Hughes Clarke, J.E., and Signell, R.P., 2017, Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1996, 1998, and 2000: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F74B2ZGX.

Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Hughes Clark, J.E., Signell, R.P., and Schwab, W.C., 2016, Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor south of Long Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7Z899GG.

Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Hughes Clarke, J.E., and Signell, R.P., 2017, Bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Hudson Shelf Valley: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7C53J1Z.

Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Knowles, S.C., May, B., and Serrett, L., 2002, Sea floor topography and backscatter intensity of the Historic Area Remediation Site (HARS), offshore of New York, based on multibeam surveys conducted in 1996, 1998, and 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-503, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2000503.

Butman, B., Hayes, L., Danforth, W.W., and Valentine, P.C., 2003, Shaded relief and sea floor topography of quadrangle 1 in western Massachusetts Bay offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2731-B, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2731B.

Butman, B., Middleton, T.J., Thieler, E.R., and Schwab, W.C., 2003, Topography, shaded relief, and backscatter intensity of the Hudson Shelf Valley, offshore of New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-372, CD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr03372.

Butman, B., Valentine, P.C., Danforth, W.W., Hayes, L., Serrett, L.A., and Middleton, T.J., 2004, Shaded relief, sea-floor topography, and backscatter intensity of Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank region offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey IMAP 2734, https://doi.org/10.3133/i2734.

Butman, B., Valentine, P.C., Middleton, T.J., and Danforth, W.W., 2007, A GIS library of multibeam data for Massachusetts Bay and the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, offshore of Boston, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 99, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds99.

Pendleton, E.A., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Ackerman, S.D., Foster, D.S., Andrews, B.D., and Schwab, W.C., 2013, Shallow geology, seafloor texture, and physiographic zones of the Inner Continental Shelf from Nahant to northern Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012–1157, 53 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121157.

Pendleton, E.A., Barnhardt, W.A., Baldwin, W.E., Foster, D.S., Schwab, W.C., Andrews, B.D., and Ackerman, S.D., 2015, Sea-floor texture and physiographic zones of the inner continental shelf from Salisbury to Nahant, Massachusetts, including the Merrimack Embayment and Western Massachusetts Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015–1153, 36 p., 1 appendix, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151153.

Poppe, L.J., Paskevich, V.F., Butman, B., Ackerman, S.D., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S., and Blackwood, D.S., 2006, Geological interpretation of bathymetric and backscatter imagery of the sea floor off eastern Cape Cod, Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1048, DVD-ROM, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051048.

Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S, Swift, B.A., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., and Thieler, E.R., 2000, Seafloor characterization offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-295, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr00295.

Valentine, P.C., Malczyk, J.T., Middleton, T.J., 2003, Sea-floor topography of Quadrangle 2 in the Great South Channel, western Georges Bank: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I-2698-C, scale 1:25,000, 1 sheet, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/i2698C.

Valentine, P.C., Malczyk, J.T., Middleton, T.J., 2003, Sun-illuminated sea-floor topography of Quadrangle 2 in the Great South Channel, western Georges Bank: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series Map I-2698-D, scale 1: 25,000, 1 sheet, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/i2698D.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Simrad EM 1000 --- Multibeam
Hars1998Mos (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
Hars1998Pseudo (GeoTIFF image of the shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor, colored by backscatter intensity, of the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
Hars1998Sun (GeoTIFF image of the shaded-relief bathymetry of the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
HARS1998_3m_bathymetry (Bathymetry of the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1998 (3-m resolution Esri binary grid and 32-bit GeoTIFF, Mercator, WGS 84))
HSV_12m_bathymetry (Bathymetry of the Hudson Shelf Valley (12-m resolution Esri binary grid and 32-bit GeoTIFF, Mercator, WGS 84))
HSV_12m_backscatter (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Hudson Shelf Valley (12-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
hsv_srback12m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor of the Hudson Shelf Valley (12-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
hsv_srelief12m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor of the Hudson Shelf Valley (12-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
fire_backi3m (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor offshore of Fire Island Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
fire_bath3m (Grid of the sea-floor bathymetry offshore of Fire Island Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution Esri binary grid, Mercator, WGS 84))
morich_srelief3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
shin_backi3m (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
morich_backi3m (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
morich_bath3m (Grid of the sea-floor bathymetry offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution Esri binary grid, Mercator, WGS 84))
shin_srelief3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
shin_bath3m (Grid of the sea-floor bathymetry offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution Esri binary grid, Mercator, WGS 84))
mont_srelief3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
mont_srback3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
mont_backi3m (GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
mont_bath3m (Grid of the sea-floor bathymetry southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution Esri binary grid, Mercator, WGS 84))
morich_srback3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
fire_srelief3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry of the sea floor offshore of Fire Island Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
CAPENORTH_GEO4M_XYZ (ASCII formatted file of the 4-m Bathymetry from the northern half of the Sea Floor off Eastern Cape Cod (Geographic))
CAPENORTHMOS_GEO4M_WGS84 (4-m GeoTIFF image of the northern half of the Backscatter Intensity Mosaic of the sea floor off Northeastern Cape Cod (Geographic))
CAPESOUTHMOS_GEO4M_WGS84 (4-m GeoTIFF image of the southern half of the Backscatter Intensity Mosaic of the sea floor off Eastern Cape Cod (Geographic))
fire_srback3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor offshore of Fire Island Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
shin_srback3m (GeoTIFF image of shaded-relief bathymetry, colored by backscatter intensity, of the sea floor offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84))
CAPESOUTH_GEO4M_XYZ (ASCII formatted file of the 4-m Bathymetry from the southern half of the Sea Floor off Eastern Cape Cod (Geographic))
DGPS --- Navigation
Hars1998Nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor in the Historic Area Remediation Site in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))
hsv_1998_nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the Hudson Shelf Valley carried out in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))
fire_nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor offshore of Fire Island Inlet, New York, in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))
mont_nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor southwest of Montauk Point, New York, in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))
morich_nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor offshore of Moriches Inlet, New York, in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))
shin_nav (Tracklines of a multibeam survey of the sea floor offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (polyline shapefile, geographic, WGS 84))

Accessibility FOIA Privacy Policies and Notices

U.S. Department of the Interior | U.S. Geological Survey
Questions or Comments? Contact CMGDS Team
https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov