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Field Activity Details for field activity 05SCC01

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Other ID: G-1-05-LA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): James Flocks

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Seafloor mapping

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Fourchon, LA

End Port/Location: Port Fourchon, LA

Start Date: 2005-08-08

End Date: 2005-08-11

Equipment Used: GPS , Chirp 424

Information to be Derived: Geophysical Data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Chirp (23 lines)

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Digital 05SCC01 FACS logs were generated by A. Harrison in June of 2006 using
the handwritten logs and personal accounts of the crew members.

Location:

Offshore of Port Fourchon and Timbalier Bay, Louisiana, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.11443 South: 29.02221 West: -90.4178 East: -89.95557

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Harrison, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Wiese, D.S., Calderon, K., 2007, Archive of digital CHIRP seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 05SCC01 offshore of Port Fourchon and Timbalier Bay, Louisiana, August 2005: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 242, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds242.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 05SCC01 has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=05SCC01.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Processed Shotpoint Navigation
Processed 1000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data

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