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Field Activity Details for field activity 01RCE03

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Other ID: G-3-01-LA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): James Flocks

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To evaluate the storage and transport of particle reactive, environmentally relevant contaminates through the Mississippi River and Atchafalaya River delta complexes to the near-shore Gulf of Mexico.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana

End Port/Location: Cocodrie, Louisiana

Start Date: 2001-05-19

End Date: 2001-05-25

Equipment Used: GPS , Vibracorer

Information to be Derived: Sediment cores will be used to evaluate the distribution and concentrations of key contaminates.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 7 vibracores along the Mississippi River and Delta.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Lake Pontchartrain Inner Harbor Navigation Canal & Mississippi River, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.32760116 South: 28.92789473 West: -89.35642004 East: -88.94576311

Platform(s):

photo of G.K. Gilbert
G.K. Gilbert

Publications

Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Calderon, K., 2005, LASED geodatabase: a tool to manage, analyze, distribute, and archive geologic data from the Louisiana coastal zone: Digital mapping techniques '05, workshop proceedings; Open-File Report 2005-1428, U.S. Geological Survey, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 24-27, 2005, pp. 81–89, URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1428/.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Station Locations
Vibracorer --- Geology
Core descriptions

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