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Field Activity Details for field activity 1993-027-FA

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Other ID: JENA 93-2

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kathryn Scanlon Catanach

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sampling: Geology, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect high-resolution seismic reflection data and bottom samples to map surficial sediments, geologic structure and morphology of the insular sea floor.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Yabucoa, Puerto Rico

End Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

Start Date: 1993-11-06

End Date: 1993-11-12

Equipment Used: Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz), Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer, ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler, Shipek grab, DGPS

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Barry Irwin, Kenneth F. Parolski, Kathryn Scanlon Catanach

Affiliate Staff:
Milton Carlo - geol. tech.
USGS BAMG-San Juan; Juan Trias - geologist
USGS BAMG-San Juan

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Kathy Scanlon - ch. sci.; Barry Irwin - navigation; Ken Parolski - elec. tech.
Project = PR insular shelf studies, PR insular shelf studies

Location:

off Humacao, southeast Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 18.30238 South: 17.81146 West: -66.2585 East: -65.64331

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 report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, printout of sample locations, and maps of tracklines and sample locations.
Cruise log (document not focused on specific equipment) Watchstanders' seismic logbook with line starts and ends and performance problems, waypoints (time only) for sample stations.
Navigation log DGPS DGPS navigation printout with 5 minute fixes containing Julian day, time, latitude and longitude, speed and bearing,and hand annotated sample stations and line numbers.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz) --- Boomer
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Sparker
1993-027-FA-SE-001 (Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines)
1993-027-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of)
ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Shipek grab --- Geology
DGPS --- Navigation
1993-027-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 93027)
1993-027-FA-LN-002 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPSL1-8, NAV-DGPSL9-16*, NAV-DGPSL17-27, NAV-EDITDGPS, NAV-RAWDGPS, )

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