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Field Activity Details for field activity 10BIM04

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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): Jack Kindinger, Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s): Dawn Lavoie

Information Specialist(s): Jack Kindinger

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Interferometric, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geomorphology, Geology, Island Evolution

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS

End Port/Location: Pass Christian, MS or Gulfport, MS

Start Date: 2010-08-30

End Date: 2010-09-10

Equipment Used: Interferometric Bathymetry System, F190 DGPS/IMU, Choke Ring Antenna, Vibracorer, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Chirp 512i, Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320, Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe, Klein Side Scan

Information to be Derived: Geologic framework to determine the island geomorphology, stratigraphy and geologic history.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: A total of 119 chirp 2-D subbottom profiles, 79 swath, 9 single beam, and 9 sidescan lines were collected.

Staff: Lance Thornton, Dana Wiese, Richard Young

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment: Knudsen 320.

Location:

MS Barrier Islands

Boundaries
North: 30.30844651 South: 30.17394925 West: -89.4115 East: -88.57241453

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Buster, N.A., Pfeiffer, W.R., Miselis, J.L., Kindinger, J.L., Wiese, D.S., Reynolds, B.J., 2012, Bathymetry and acoustic backscatter data collected in 2010 from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 739, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds739.

Forde, A.S., Dadisman, S.V., Kindinger, J.L., Miselis, J.L., Wiese, D.S., Buster, N.A., 2012, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS cruise 10BIM04 offshore Cat Island, Mississippi, September 2010: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 724, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds724.

Kindinger, J.L., Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., 2014, The shallow stratigraphy and sand resources offshore from Cat Island, Mississippi: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1070, 83 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141070.

Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., Kindinger, J.L., 2014, Refining the link between the Holocene development of the Mississippi River Delta and the geologic evolution of Cat Island, MS: implications for delta-associated barrier islands: Marine Geology, v. 355, pp. 274–290, doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2014.05.021.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 10BIM04 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=10BIM04.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
10BIM04-BA-pd-1 (Swath Interferometric bathy grid as Geotiff)
10BIM04-BA-pd-2 (Data Series 739 GIS dataset)
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Vibracorer --- Geology
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
10BIM04-BA-pd-5 (Swath bathymetry trackline shapefile)
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
DS 724 nav (Chirp 512i data navigation)
10BIM04-SE-pd-4 (Chirp 512i data GeoMapApp)
DS 724 arc (Chirp 512i data GIS)
DS 724 segy (Chirp 512i data agc SEGY)
DS 724 profiles (Chirp 512i data profiles)
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 --- Single Beam
Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe --- Sound Velocity
Klein Side Scan --- Sidescan
10BIM04-BS-pd-1 (Side Scan Sonar grid as GeoTiff)

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