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RI Vibrocores - SUBMITTED  
UNOLS Project ID: 104805 URI Serial #: None
Date Submitted: 3/20/2015 4:31:00 PM Last Modified: 4/7/2015 5:25:00 PM
Status: Submitted Version #: 2
Principal Investigator (PI) Contact Information
John King
 Oceanography URI_GSO 		(401) 874-6182
 jwking*%*%*uri^%^%^edu
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) & other collaborators Contact Information
NONE
Project Information (Proposal, Grant, Project, Contract, Program)
Project Title: Obtaining Long Vibrocores for Paleoenvironmental Studies and to Determine Offshore Sand/Gravel Resources in Waters Adjacent to Rhode Island
Program Name:  
Scientific Discipline: Geological Oceanography  
Project Status: Funded Contract/Project
Project Funding Agencies:
Agency/Division/Program Grant or Project Number Funding Status
STATE RIEP Funded
Other Agency or Program Description: This project is part of the Rhode Island Endeavor Program
Project Institution: University of Rhode Island
Institution Project #: RIEP
Project Start Date: 8/22/2015
End Date: 8/28/2015
Proposal Deadline
(proposal date):		  
Total Project Budget: $2,400
Project Description and Facility Requirements
Project Web Page: http://none
Summary of Field Work: The major objective of this proposal is to set up
long (6-­-10 m) vibrocoring capability on the Endeavor to compliment the
shallow water (continental shelf depths) geophysical survey (simultaneous swath bathymetry, side-­-scan sonar, and subbottom sonar)
that King and collaborators have previously installed on the Endeavor.
Having this coring tool available to do ground-­-truth studies of
subbottom profiles will allow scientists to attack a range of problems on
the continental shelf.


Two general scientific objectives that are currently supported by grants
from BOEM are proposed for this cruise. They are: (1) to obtain a suite
of cores from the "Mud Hole" that will be utilized for a Holocene/Late
Glacial paleoenvironmental reconstruction of an area that may have
been inhabited by the ancestors of the Narragansett Tribe prior to sea level rise; and (2) identify, characterize, and inventory offshore sand
deposits that may be needed for future beach replenishment projects
along the south coast of RI.
Summary of Facility Requirements: We plan to use a Rossfelder P-3 vibrocorer and a subbottom sonar system that PI King owns.
Summary of other requirements or comments: none.
List of Ship, Aircraft and Facility Requests
 YearShipTotal DaysCost EstimateStart Date (optimum)RepeatMulti-shipAreaClearanceStatus
View 2015 Endeavor 6 $128,364 Aug 01, 2015 No No No Submitted

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