Western Massachusetts Bay

Western Massachusetts Bay lies east of Boston and west of the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, from Gloucester in the north to the North River in the south. The sea floor survey was conducted on four cruises over a four-year period from the fall of 1994 to the fall of 1998 using a Simrad EM-1000 multibeam echo sounder.

Cooperators: University of New Brunswick (UNB), Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS)

Survey area for the Western Mass Bay project. Click for larger image.

Maps available

• Maps of Quadrangles 1 and 2 at 1:25,000 showing:
  
  Contours of sea floor topography
  
  Sea floor topography in shaded relief view and as contours
  
  Backscatter intensity, shaded relief topography, and contours
  
  
• Maps of the Stellwagen Bank Sanctuary and Western Massachusetts Bay at 1:125,000 showing:
  
  Sea floor topography in shaded relief view, depth in color, and topographic contours
  
  Backscatter intensity, shaded relief topography, and contours.
  
  

List of publications from Western Massachusetts Bay mapping

For more information:
Bradford Butman
U.S. Geological Survey
Woods Hole Science Center
384 Woods Hole Rd.
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1598
bbutman@usgs.gov