William W Danforth

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Remote Sensing, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, bathymetry, boomer, chirp, field activity number 2017-003-FA, marine geology, marine geophysics, multi-channel streamer, multibeam sonar, navigational data, ocean sciences, sea floor, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, seismic reflection methods, sound velocity profiles, sparker, Fewer tags

GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor offshore of Shinnecock Inlet, New York, in 1998 (3-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84)

Surveys of the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor south of Long Island, New York, were carried out in November 1998 using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of the multibeam echosounder surveys was to explore the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor in several areas off the southern coast of Long Island along the 20-meter isobath. Survey areas offshore of Fire Island Inlet, Moriches Inlet, Shinnecock Inlet, and southwest of Montauk Point were about 1 kilometer (km) wide and 10 km long. The area was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey with support from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and the University...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 3-m resolution, Canadian Coast Guard ship (CCGS) Frederick G. Creed, Canadian Hydrographic Service, Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), GeoTIFF image, All tags... Long Island, Middle Atlantic Bight, New York, New York Bight, North Atlantic Ocean, Shinnecock Inlet, Simrad EM1000, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), University of New Brunswick, WHCMSC field activity 1998-015-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), backscatter intensity, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mid-Atlantic Bight, multibeam, oceans, sea floor, sea floor mapping, Fewer tags

Multibeam Echosounder, Reson T-20P tracklines, USGS field activity 2017-003-FA, Mississippi River Delta front offshore of southeastern Louisiana (Esri polyline shapefile, GCS WGS 84)

High resolution bathymetric, sea-floor backscatter, and seismic-reflection data were collected offshore of southeastern Louisiana aboard the research vessel Point Sur on May 19-26, 2017, in an effort to characterize mudflow hazards on the Mississippi River Delta front. As the initial field program of a research cooperative between the U.S. Geological Survey, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and other Federal and academic partners, the primary objective of this cruise was to assess the suitability of sea-floor mapping and shallow subsurface imaging tools in the challenging environmental conditions found across delta fronts (for example, variably distributed water column stratification and widespread biogenic...

Categories: Data; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, Shapefile; Tags: BOEM, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, CMGP, Coastal and Marine Geology Program, Gulf of Mexico, All tags... Marine Geology, Mississippi River Delta front, Pass a Loutre, Reson, South Pass, Southeast Louisiana, Southwest Pass, T20P, U.S. Geological Survey, USGS, WHCMSC, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, backscatter, bathymetry, bathymetry, field activity number 2017-003-FA, geoscientificInformation, location, marine geology, marine geophysics, multibeam backscatter, multibeam bathymetry, multibeam echosounder, multibeam sonar, navigational data, oceans, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, shapefile, trackline navigation, Fewer tags

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)

The Hudson Shelf Valley is the submerged seaward extension of the ancestral Hudson River drainage system and is the largest physiographic feature on the Middle Atlantic continental shelf. The valley begins offshore of New York and New Jersey at about 30-meter (m) water depth, runs southerly and then southeasterly across the Continental Shelf, and terminates on the outer shelf at about 85-m water depth landward of the head of the Hudson Canyon. Portions of the 150-kilometer-long valley were surveyed in 1996, 1998, and 2000 using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of the multibeam echosounder surveys was to map the bathymetry and backscatter...

Types: Citation, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Canadian Coast Guard ship Frederick G. Creed, Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS), Coastal and Marine Geology Program (CMGP), GeoTIFF image, Hudson Canyon, All tags... Hudson Shelf Valley, Middle Atlantic Bight, New Jersey, New York, New York Bight, North Atlantic Ocean, Simrad EM1000, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), USGS Open-File Report 03-372, University of New Brunswick (UNB), WHCMSC field activity 1996-043-FA, WHCMSC field activity 1998-015-FA, WHCMSC field activity 2000-015-FA, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center (WHCMSC), backscatter intensity, geoscientificInformation, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, mid-Atlantic Bight, multibeam, oceans, sea floor mapping, shaded-relief bathymetry, Fewer tags

GeoTIFF image of the backscatter intensity of the sea floor of the Sandy Hook artificial reef (2-m resolution, Mercator, WGS 84)

The Sandy Hook artificial reef, located on the sea floor offshore of Sandy Hook, New Jersey was built to create habitat for marine life. The reef was created by the placement of heavy materials on the sea floor; ninety-five percent of the material in the Sandy Hook reef is rock. In 2000, the U.S. Geological Survey surveyed the area using a Simrad EM1000 multibeam echosounder mounted on the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) ship Frederick G. Creed. The purpose of this multibeam survey, done in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers when the Creed was in the New York region in April 2000, was to map the bathymetry and backscatter intensity of the sea floor in the area of the Sandy Hook artificial reef. The collected...

Categories: Data; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Citation, Downloadable, Map Service; Tags: GeoTIFF image, Middle Atlantic Bight, New Jersey, New York, New York Bight, All tags... North Atlantic Ocean, Sandy Hook artificial reef, Simrad EM1000, backscatter intensity, geoscientificInformation, image mosaics, imageryBaseMapsEarthCover, marine geology, marine geophysics, mid-Atlantic Bight, multibeam, multibeam sonar, oceans, sea floor mapping, sea-floor acoustic reflectivity, sea-floor characteristics, Fewer tags