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Field Activity Details for field activity 06SCC03

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Other ID: G306LA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Nick Ferina

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Arnell Forde

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Seafloor mapping

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Grand Isle, LA

End Port/Location: Grand Isle, LA

Start Date: 2006-07-18

End Date: 2006-07-20

Equipment Used: Chirp 424, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, F190 DGPS/IMU, GPS , Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320

Information to be Derived: Post-Hurricane Katrina Barrier Island Coastal Monitoring

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: CHIRP (22 lines)

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Digital 06SCC03 FACS logs were generated by A.
Harrison in August of 2006 using the handwritten logs
and personal accounts of the crew members.
BICM Barrier Island Coastal Monitoring

Location:

Offshore of Cheniere Caminada, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 29.17837 South: 29.05017 West: -90.2241 East: -90.03865

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Harrison, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Ferina, N.F., Wiese, D.S., 2007, Archive of digital CHIRP seismic reflection data collected during USGS cruise 06SCC03 offshore of Cheniere Caminada, Louisiana, July 2006: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 311, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds311.

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Processed 1000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
Processed Shotpoint Navigation
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
GPS --- Navigation
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 --- Single Beam

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