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Field Activity Details for field activity 1993-025-FA

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Other ID: JEAN-A 1993 Leg 01

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kenneth F. Parolski

Affiliate Investigator(s): Juan Luis Trias - USGS BAMG-San Juan

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sampling: Geology, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect sediment samples and high-resolution seismic reflections profiles; dive.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Las Mareas Harbor, Guayama, Puerto Rico

End Port/Location: Las Mareas Harbor, Guayama, Puerto Rico

Start Date: 1993-10-27

End Date: 1993-11-05

Equipment Used: DGPS, Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz), 3.5 kHz, Shipek grab, Van Veen grab sampler, SCUBA

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Beach sampling was conducted 10/06/93; shallow water sediment samples were collected 10/10/93 aboard a rubber boat.

Staff: Barry Irwin, Kenneth F. Parolski

Affiliate Staff:
Juan Trias - ch. sci.; Milton Carlo - geologist
San Juan

Notes:
Project = Puerto Rico Marine Geologic Maps, Puerto Rico Marine Geologic Maps

Location:

Grappler Bank, south coast, Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 17.99841 South: 17.62308 West: -67.0605 East: -65.61035

Platform(s):

photo of Jean A
Jean A

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, sample locations.
Navigation log DGPS GPS and DGPS navigation printout with 5-minute fixes containing julian day, time, latitude, longitude, speed, bearing and hand annotations for start and end of lines.
Cruise log (document not focused on specific equipment) Seismic log with start and end of lines, waypoints (time only recorded) for grab samples.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
1993-025-FA-LN-001-01 ( Seismic trackline map. )
1993-025-FA-LN-002 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-GPSL1-4, NAV-DGPSL4A-11, NAV-DGPSL14-18*, NAV-DGPSL12-25, NAV-GPSGRABS1-25, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPSSTA35-73, NAV-RAWDGPS, NAV-EDITDGPS, )
Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz) --- Boomer
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
1993-025-FA-SE-001 (Collection of paper record displays of seismic data (3.5K) for lines )
1993-025-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of )
Shipek grab --- Geology
Van Veen grab sampler --- Geology
SCUBA --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology

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