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Field Activity Details for field activity 1990-028-FA

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Other ID: ERDA-90-2, Legs MB-90-1, MB-90-2, and AL-90-1

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger

Affiliate Investigator(s): Guy Gelfenbaum, USGS, St. Petersburg, FL

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect nearshore and Mobile Bay high-resolution seismic data as part of coastal project to study coastal erosion; includes surficial water samples to correlate to satellite photos.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Mobile, AL

End Port/Location: Dauphin Island, AL

Start Date: 1990-08-12

End Date: 1990-08-24

Equipment Used: GeoPulse uniboom, Single channel hydrophone, GPS (wh), Loran-C

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Nichols

Affiliate Staff:
Richard Hummel
Alabama Geological Survey; Steve Parker
Alabama Geological Survey; Dana Wiese
USGS-St. Petersburg
FL

Notes:
Project = MS/AL/USGS Cooperative, MS/AL/USGS Cooperative

Location:

Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 30.75 South: 30 West: -88.5 East: -87.3

Platform(s):

photo of Erda-1
Erda-1

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report personnel, purpose, equipment, trackmap.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GeoPulse uniboom --- Boomer
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
Loran-C --- Navigation

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