1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity R101WA

Identifier R101WA
Alternate names R-1-01-WA
Purpose Cruise R1-01-WA of the NOAA ship Rainier was a joint cruise of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to investigate how the three major deltas in southern Puget Sound faired during the magnitude 6.8 Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001.
Description United States Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California,National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Chief Scientist: Jim Gardner. Geophysical data (multibeam, multibeam, motionsensor, CTDmeter) of field activity R-1-01-WA in Southern Puget Sound, Washington from 03/19/2001 to 03/30/2001
Location Washington
Summary Collected high-resolution bathymetry of the Duwamish River Delta, the Puyallup River Delta, and the Nisqually River Delta.
Info derived Bathymetry
Comments For raw and intermediate data sets, contact Rani Nandiwada Staff information imported from InfoBank Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Projects
Platform
Rainier
Length 231 feet; beam 42 feet; draft 17 feet. Launched 1967, USCGS (United States Coast and Geodetic Survey) owned 1968 to 1970. NOAA acquired in 1970. She is named for Mount Rainier in the state of Washington and is the sister ship of NOAAS Fairweather and the decommissioned NOAAS Mount Mitchell.
Itinerary
Start Seattle, WA 2001-03-19
End Seattle, WA 2001-03-30
Bounds
West -122.775
East -122.33
North 47.63
South 47.095
Activity Geophysical

Personnel

Organization
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA)
Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Gardner, Jim
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Peter Dartnell
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Multibeam, Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
motionsensor Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data reported)
sidescansonar Sidescan (no data reported)
multibeam Multibeam 4
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
DUBATHG - ArcInfo GRID format of the 2001 multibeam echo-sounder data multibeam ArcInfo GRID format bathymetry data generated from the 2001 multibeam sonar survey the major deltas of southern Puget Sound, WA., including Nisqually, Puyallup, and Duwamish Deltas. This is metadata for the Duwamish Delta multibeam bathymetry data. Peter Dartnell
File list multibeam Peter Dartnell
NIBATHG - ArcInfo GRID format of the 2001 multibeam echo-sounder data multibeam ArcInfo GRID format bathymetry data generated from the 2001 multibeam sonar survey the major deltas of southern Puget Sound, WA., including Nisqually, Puyallup, and Duwamish Deltas. This is metadata for the Nisqually Delta multibeam bathymetry data. Peter Dartnell
PUBATHG - ArcInfo GRID format of the 2001 multibeam echo-sounder data multibeam ArcInfo GRID format bathymetry data generated from the 2001 multibeam sonar survey the major deltas of southern Puget Sound (Tacoma), WA., including Nisqually, Puyallup, and Duwamish Deltas. This is metadata for the Puyallup Delta multibeam bathymetry data. Peter Dartnell

Publications

Gardner, J.; van den Ameele, E.; and Dartnell, P., 2001, Multibeam mapping of the major deltas of southern Puget Sound, Washington: , https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr01266.