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Field Activity Details for field activity 08CCT01

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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): Nancy DeWitt, Dana Wiese

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Interferometric, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sound Velocity, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To create a complete modern topobathymetric map of the Mississippi barrier islands from Cat Island to Dauphin Island. Data to provide information for the following: sediment budget; assessment of immediate sand resources in the region, modern geologic framework; historical island change measurements; base-level assessment of the seafloor since the 2005 hurricane season

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

End Port/Location: Biloxi, Mississippi

Start Date: 2008-07-08

End Date: 2008-07-21

Equipment Used: Tripods, Interferometric Bathymetry System, Chirp 512i, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Valeport SVP, Choke Ring Antenna

Information to be Derived: Submetrix swath bathymetry data; shallow subbotom image profiles; high precision single beam bathymetry (X, Y, Z)

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Bennett, James Flocks, Richard Young

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment: Knudsen 320 bathy profiles

Location:

Ship Island, MS

Boundaries
North: 30.27317997 South: 30.18513897 West: -89.05473053 East: -88.52825046

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Buster, N.A., Brenner, O.T., Flocks, J.G., 2017, Historical and recent coastal bathymetry data nearshore Ship, Horn, and Petit Bois Islands, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7028QFV.

DeWitt, N.T., Flocks, J.G., Pendleton, E.A., Hansen, M.E., Reynolds, B.J., Kelso, K.W., Wiese, D.S., Worley, C.R., 2012, Archive of single beam and swath bathymetry data collected nearshore of the Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, from West Ship Island, Mississippi, to Dauphin Island, Alabama: Methods and data report for USGS cruises 08CCT01 and 08CCT02, July 2008 and 09CCT03 and 09CCT04, June 2009: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 675, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds675.

Flocks, J.G., Buster, N.A., Brenner, O.T., 2020, Seafloor change around the Mississippi barrier islands, 1920 to 2016-The influence of storm effects on inlet and island morphodynamics: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1140, 30 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191140.

Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Kelso, K.W., 2015, Geologic control on the evolution of the inner shelf morphology offshore of the Mississippi barrier islands, northern Gulf of Mexico, USA: Continental Shelf Research, v. 101, pp. 59–70, doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2015.04.008.

Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Flocks, J.G., Worley, C.R., 2011, Archive of digital CHIRP sub-bottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 08CCT01, Gulf Islands, Mississippi, July 2008: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 620, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds620.

Gal, N.S., Wallace, D.J., Miner, M.D., Hollis, R.J., Dike, C., Flocks, J.G., 2021, Influence of antecedent geology on the Holocene formation and evolution of Horn Island, Mississippi, USA: Marine Geology, v. 431, 106375 p., doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2020.106375.

Lavoie, D.L., Flocks, J., Twichell, D., Rose, K.V., 2013, Benthic substrate classification map: Gulf Islands National Seashore: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2012-1051, 14 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20121051.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 08CCT01 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=08CCT01.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
2008_2009_MS_NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip (Interpolated DEM)
2016minus2008to2009_MS_ NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip (Elevation change as a DEM, bathymetric change digital elevation model (DEM) observed between the 2008-2009 and 2016 bathymetry)
2008to2009minus1916to1920_MS_ NAD83NAVD88g12B_50m.zip (bathymetric change digital elevation model (DEM) observed between the 1916-1920 and 2008-2009 bathymetry)
2008_2009_MS_NAD83NAVD88g12B_XYZ.zip (updated elevation point data (xyz) in which NOAA's Vdatum version 3.6 was used convert the 2008-2009 XYZ soundings to Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) North American Datum of 1983 (NAD83) horizontal datum and North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88) GEOID12B vertical datum)
08CCT01-BA-pd-2 (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in ascii format, 50-m resolution)
08CCT01-BA-pd-3 (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in point format, 50-m resolution)
08CCT01-BA-pd-4 (Data Series 675 GIS dataset)
08CCT01-BA-pd-1 (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid as GeoTiff, 50-m resolution)
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
DS 620 profiles (Chirp 512i data profiles)
DS 620 segy (Chirp 512i data agc SEGY)
DS 620 arc (Chirp 512i data GIS)
08CCT01-SE-pd-4 (Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Processed Shotpoint Navigation
Processed 1,000-Shot-Interval Location Navigation
08CCT01-BA-pd-5 (Trackline shapefiles for single-beam and swath bathymetry)
08CCT01-SE-pd-1 (Chirp 512i data navigation)
Valeport SVP --- Sound Velocity
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected

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