Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Uri Ten Brink
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Brian Andrews, Christopher F. Polloni
Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Temperature, Sonar: Multibeam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multibeam bathymetry mapping to identify earthquake and tsunami sources.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
End Port/Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico
Start Date: 2006-05-03
End Date: 2006-05-19
Equipment Used: XBT, SeaBeam 2112
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 53,300 sq. km of multibeam bathymetry were collected south of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican republic, in the Mona rift area, in the 1946 tsunami area and south of the Puerto Rico trench. 11 XBT dropped.
Staff: Brian Andrews, Wayne Baldwin, William Danforth, Christopher F. Polloni, Uri Ten Brink
Affiliate Staff:
Jose-Luis Granja (student
U. of Madrid); Maria Gomez (data processing technician
Spanish Institute of Oceanography); Misty Watson (Observer
NOAA-PMEL)
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Uri ten Brink (chief Scientist), Bill Danforth (data processing expert), Brian Andrews (GIS expert), Wayne Baldwin (data processing expert), Chris Polloni (archiving).
Location:
Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and the Dominican Republic, northeast Caribbean, North Atlantic,
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 20 | South: 16.9 | West: -70 | East: -62 |
Platform(s):
 Ronald H. Brown |
Granja Bruña, J.L., ten Brink, U.S., A., Muñoz-Martín, A., Carbó-Gorosabel, A., and Llanes Estrada, P., 2015, Shallower structure and geomorphology of the southern Puerto Rico offshore margin: Marine and Petroleum Geology, v. 67, p.30-56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2015.04.014.
ten Brink, U.S., Marshak, Stephen, and Granja Bruna, Jose-Luis, 2009, Bivergent thrust wedges surrounding oceanic island arcs; insight from observations and sandbox models of the northeastern Caribbean plate: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 121 no. 11-12, doi: 10.1130/B26512.1.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| XBT | --- | Temperature | |
| SeaBeam 2112 | --- | Multibeam | 2006-008-FA-BA-001-01 (Multibeam data have been processed using CARIS HIPS by Bill Danforth and Brian Andrews who were on the survey. They are stored in CARIS HIPS ver 7.1 format on Brian's Computer and on Teramac) |
