Archive of Water Gun Subbottom Data Collected During USGS Cruise SEAX 95007 New York Bight, 7-25 May, 1995

Beginning in 1995, the USGS, in cooperation with the U.S Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE), New York District, began a program to generate
reconnaissance maps of the sea floor offshore of the New York-New
Jersey metropolitan area, one of the most populated coastal regions of
the United States. The goal of this mapping program is to provide a
regional synthesis of the sea-floor environment, including a
description of sedimentary environments, sediment texture, seafloor
morphology, and geologic history to aid in understanding the impacts
of anthropogenic activities, such as ocean dumping. This mapping
effort differs from previous studies of this area by obtaining
digital, sidescan sonar images that cover 100 percent of the sea
floor. This investigation was motivated by the need to develop an
environmentally acceptable solution for the disposal of dredged
material from the New York - New Jersey Port, by the need to identify
potential sources of sand for renourishment of the southern shore of
Long island, and by the opportunity to develop a better understanding
of the transport and long-term fate of contaminants by investigations
of the present distribution of materials discharged into the New York
Bight over the last 100+ years (Schwab and others, 1997).

This DVD-ROM contains copies of the navigation and field Water Gun
subbottom data collected aboard the R/V Seaward Explorer, from 7-25
May, 1995. The coverage is in the New York Bight area. This DVD-ROM
(Digital Versatile Disc-Read Only Memory) has been produced in
accordance with the UDF (Universal Disc Format) DVD-ROM Standard (ISO
9660 equivalent) and is therefore capable of being read on any
computing platform that has appropriate DVD-ROM driver software
installed. Access to the data and information contained on this
DVD-ROM was developed using the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
utilized by the World Wide Web (WWW) project. Development of the
DVD-ROM documentation and user interface in HTML allows a user to
access the information by using a variety of WWW information browsers
to facilitate browsing and locating information and data. To access
the information contained on this disk with a WWW client browser, open
the file'index.htm' at the top level directory of this DVD-ROM with
your selected browser. The HTML documentation is written utilizing
some HTML 4.0 enhancements. The disk should be viewable by all WWW
browsers but may not properly format on some older WWW browsers. Also,
some links to USGS collaborators and other agencies are available on
this DVD-ROM. These links are only accessible if access to the
Internet is available during browsing of the DVD-ROM.