USGS Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Geology Science Center, MA Field Activity Page for 04041

Summary for Field Activity Number 04041

On-Line Data Resources:	Report	Navigation	GIS	Archive	Geophysics	Sidescan
On-Line Data Resources:	Metadata	Samples	Photography	Time-series	Seismics	Publications

Area of Operations: Long Island Sound, New York, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Quicks Hole, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Great Round Shoal, Masachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: September 19, 2004 to October 2, 2004

Chief scientist: Larry Poppe
Marc Moser, NOAA

Objectives: Multibeam bathymetric surveying for charting applications.

Type of Activity: Seafloor mapping

Information to be derived:

Summary: This leg was only part of the NOAA Ship Thomas Jeffersons 2004 field season in Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts waters. As part of this effort, five multibeam bathymetric surveys (with ancillary sidescan sonar and CHIRP subbottom data) were completed. The NOAA projects identifier for Long Island Sound is OPR-B370-TJ; for southern Massachusetts it is S-B904-TJ.

USGS Project Number: 2921-AOQ16 - Project Description

Contact: Larry Poppe (lpoppe@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier J-1-04-LI. Visit this site for more information.

Map for Area of Operations :

Map of field activity boundary.

Platform Info:

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Related Resources:	Station Descriptions	Seismic Line Descriptions	Track Plot	Related Web Site

The following materials for this field activity are available in the Information Archives:

Data and publications on CD-ROM/DVD-ROM:

Inventory #	# per set	Data Type	Contents	Author	Year	Report #	Format	Title	Remarks
2774	01/01	GEOL	MULTIBEAM H11255	POPPE, ACKERMAN, DORAN, MOSER, STEWARD, FORFINSKI*	20060815	2006-1059		INTERNAL ARCHIVE GEOLOGIC INTERPRETATION MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY SEA FLOOR SOUTHEASTERN LONG ISLAND SOUND	*GARDNER, KEENE

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