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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-018-FA

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Other ID: NA052

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Marine Geohazards Sources and Probability (LQ00ENR)

Principal Investigator(s): Jason Chaytor, Uri Ten Brink

Affiliate Investigator(s): Amanda Demopoulos

Information Specialist(s): Brian Andrews

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Visual Identification: Species ID, Visual Identification: Submersible Observations

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Exploration of seamounts and tectonic geomorphology/earthquake hazards

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Juan, PR

End Port/Location: San Juan, PR

Start Date: 2014-09-03

End Date: 2014-09-13

Equipment Used: SBE 37 Microcat CTD, ROV, DGPS, Push corer (wh), Other, Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R, EM 302 , Submersible Observation

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry, grain size, radiocarbon ages, morphology, rock types, geochemistry, Ar/Ar

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 7 ROV dives, 174 samples, 2,773 km2 of bathymetry data, ~ 29,000 image captures, > 5TB of video

Staff: Brian Andrews, Jason Chaytor, Shannon Hoy

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Ship: E/V Nautilus
Certainty: 100%

Location:

British Virgin Islands/Anguilla/Puerto Rico

Boundaries
North: 18.41675292 South: 17.54271096 West: -65.0336 East: -63.81405204

Platform(s):

photo of Nautilus
Nautilus

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
SBE 37 Microcat CTD --- CTD
ROV --- Photo
Video
Biology
Geology
DGPS --- Navigation
Push corer (wh) --- Biology
Geology
Other --- --- ---
Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R --- Sub Bottom Profiler
EM 302 --- Multibeam
Submersible Observation --- Submersible Observations

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