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Field Activity Details for field activity 06SCC02

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Other ID: none

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): Arnell Forde

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Seafloor mapping

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Chandeleur Islands, LA

End Port/Location: Chandeleur Islands, LA

Start Date: 2006-07-03

End Date: 2006-07-15

Equipment Used: Chirp 424, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, CSI DGPS Max, F190 DGPS/IMU, Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320, Edgetech 272-TD

Information to be Derived: Post Hurricane Katrina barrier island monitoring

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Bennett, James Flocks, Keith Ludwig, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 104 chirp lines acquired

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, LA

Boundaries
North: 30.11560072 South: 29.58242332 West: -89.05401707 East: -88.70629817

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Harrison, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., and Wiese, D.S., 2007, Archive of digital CHIRP seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 06SCC02 offshore of the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana, July 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 310.

Kindinger, J.L., Buster, N.A., Flocks, J.G., Bernier, J.C., Kulp, M.A., 2013, Louisiana Barrier Island Comprehensive Monitoring (BICM) Program summary report: Data and analyses 2006 through 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1083, 86 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131083.

Mickey, R.C., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., 2017, A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1009, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171009.

Plant, N.G., Flocks, J., Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Guy, K.K., Thompson, D.M., Cormier, J.M., Smith, C.G., Miselis, J.L., Dalyander, P.S., 2014, Predictions of barrier island berm evolution in a time-varying storm climatology: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, v. 119 no. 2, pp. 300–316, doi: 10.1002/2013jf002871.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 06SCC02 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=06SCC02.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
CSI DGPS Max --- Navigation
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 --- Single Beam
Edgetech 272-TD --- Sidescan

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