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Field Activity Details for field activity 2001-005-FA

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Other ID: IB S-2-01-NR

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): E. Robert Thieler

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Erika Hammar-Klose

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Interferometric, Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map inner-shelf.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Norfolk, VA

End Port/Location: Wilmington, NC

Start Date: 2001-07-01

End Date: 2001-07-18

Equipment Used: Single channel hydrophone, GeoPulse uniboom, DGPS, SIS1000 Sidescan sonar, Echosounder, SIS1000 Chirp Sonar, SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz, Digital camera, Van Veen grab sampler

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Good cruise.

Staff: Mark Capone, Jane Denny, Erika Hammar-Klose, Barry Irwin, David Nichols, Thomas O'Brien, Christopher F. Polloni, E. Robert Thieler

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Original Center People field contained: O'Brien, Nichols, Irwin, Denny, Hammar-Klose, Polloni, Thieler; Capone (mob and drive truck to Charleston).
Project = Coastal Sedimentary System: Northern NC, Coastal Sedimentary System: Northern NC
Information from Foghorn: SIS-1000, Submetrix sidescan, GeoPulse boomer, fathometer, DGPS, Van Veen sampler, data acquisiton and processing vans;

Location:

outer banks, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 36.50031464 South: 35.69200328 West: -75.84227622 East: -75.3582735

Platform(s):

photo of Atlantic Surveyor
Atlantic Surveyor

Publications

Swift, B.A., Thieler, E.R., Denny, J., and O'Brien, T.F., 2003, Archive of boomer subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise ATSV01005, Outer Banks, North Carolina, July 1-18, 2001: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-55, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr0355.

Thieler, E.R., Foster, D.S., Mallinson, D.M., Himmelstoss, E.A., McNinch, J.E., List, J.H.,and Hammar-Klose, E.S., 2013, Quaternary geophysical framework of the northeastern North Carolina coastal system: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2011-1015, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20111015.

Thieler, E.R, Foster, D.S., Himmelstoss, E.A., and Mallinson, D.J., 2014, Geologic framework of the northern North Carolina, USA inner continental shelf and its influence on coastal evolution: Marine Geology, Vol. 348, 2014, pp. 113-130, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.11.011.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2001-005-FA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=2001-005-FA.

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise log (document not focused on specific equipment) PDF of Excel spreadsheet cruise log which contains times, line and filenames, equipment configuration and performance, comments.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
isb2001005_seismic_images (JPEG images of boomer seismic data from inner shelf off North Carolina)
isb2001005_tracklines (Tracklines of boomer seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina.)
isb2001005_shots (Shot points of boomer seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina.)
GeoPulse uniboom --- Boomer
DGPS --- Navigation
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
iss2001005_tracklines (Tracklines of sidescan sonar data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina.)
Echosounder --- Single Beam
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data
isc2001005_chirp_seismic_images (JPEG images of Chirp seismic data from inner shelf off North Carolina)
isc2001005_tracklines (Tracklines of Chirp seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina.)
isc2001005_shots (Shot points of Chirp seismic data acquisition on the inner shelf off North Carolina.)
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz --- Interferometric
Digital camera --- Photo
2001-005-FA-PH-001 (Deck photos of field activity operations)
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology

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