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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CCT04

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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, Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Julie Bernier, Nancy DeWitt, Kyle Kelso, William Pfeiffer, Dana Wiese

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Identifying sand resources for barrier island restoration

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

Start Date: 2013-08-12

End Date: 2013-08-12

Equipment Used: Chirp 424, F190 DGPS/IMU, GPS , Klein Side Scan, Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe, Valeport SVP, Interferometric Bathymetry System, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor

Information to be Derived: Sand isopach; seafloor morphology & lithology; subsurface stratigraphy

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Julie Bernier, Nancy DeWitt, James Flocks, Kyle Kelso, William Pfeiffer, Dana Wiese

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Platform: R/V Tommy Munro
MSCIP project

Location:

Petit Bois Pass, MS

Boundaries
North: 30.37147653 South: 30.06088655 West: -88.6703 East: -88.36967632

Platform(s):

photo of Tommy Munro
Tommy Munro

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Bernier, J.C., Kelso, K.W., Wiese, D.S., Finlayson, D.P., Pfeiffer, W.R., 2015, Archive of sidescan sonar and swath bathymetry data collected during USGS Cruise 13CCT04 Offshore of Petit Bois Island, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Mississippi, August 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 917, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds917.

Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J., Kelso, K.W., Bernier, J.C., DeWitt, N.T., FitzHarris, M., 2015, Near-surface stratigraphy and morphology, Mississippi Inner Shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1014, 26 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151014.

Forde, A.S., Flocks, J.G., Kindinger, J.L., Bernier, J.C., Kelso, K.W., Wiese, D.S., 2015, Archive of digital chirp subbottom profile data collected during USGS Cruise 13CCT04 offshore of Petit Bois Island, Mississippi, August 2013: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 924, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds924.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 13CCT04 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=13CCT04.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Chirp 424 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
DS 924 arc (Chirp 424 GIS dataset)
DS 924 segy (Chirp 424 data agc SEGY)
13CCT04-SE-pd-2 (Chirp 424 data profiles)
F190 DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
GPS --- Navigation
DS 924 nav (Chirp 424 data navigation)
Klein Side Scan --- Sidescan
13CCT04_SSS_01_ITRF05.zip (Sidescan Sonar Mosaic 1-m resolution)
Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe --- Sound Velocity
Valeport SVP --- Sound Velocity
No data was collected
Interferometric Bathymetry System --- Interferometric
13CCT04_IFB_tracklines.zip (Tracklines)
13CCT04_IFB_50_WGS84_G1150_MLLW_DEM.zip (Bathymetry DEM 50-m cell size)
13CCT04_GIS.zip (Esri ArcGIS project Bathymetry DEM 50-m cell size)
13CCT04_IFS_01_ITRF05.zip (Interferometric Backscatter Mosaic 1-m resolution)
13CCT04_IFB_xyz.zip (Swath samples 2-m BASE resolution)
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor --- Interferometric
Single Beam
No data was collected

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