Field Activity 2025-017-FA

Identifier 2025-017-FA -- CANCELED
Alternate names Test Norbit and Edgetech 216 Narragansett Bay
Purpose Test St Petersburg Norbit multibeam echo sounder and our Edgetech 216 subbottom profiler
Location Area offshore due west of NUWC
Info derived This activity is testing equipment, no data or information is expected to be derived
Projects
Platform
O'Brien
Length 26 feet; marine grade aluminum
Itinerary
Start Newport Naval Base, RI 2025-09-03
End Newport Naval Base, RI 2025-09-12
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -71.57180786
East -71.30264282
North 41.55381099
South 41.20862214

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators William W Danforth
Crew members
David S Foster
Scientist, Staff
Alexander R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Liesel K Vanderveen
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
William W Danforth
Specialist, Information
David S Foster
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Multibeam, Sub Bottom Profiler

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Real Time Kinematic GPS Navigation (no data reported)
POS-MV Navigation (no data reported)
Edgetech 3400 Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity