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Field Activity Details for field activity 98GFP02

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Other ID: G-2-98-LA

Status: Completed

Organization(s): U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, University of New Orleans, Louisiana State University, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jack Kindinger

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Jack Kindinger

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geologic framework and coastal processes study.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: New Orleans Municipal Marina

End Port/Location: New Orleans Municipal Marina

Start Date: 1998-06-20

End Date: 1998-06-25

Equipment Used: GPS , ITI ST-5 streamer, Huntec ESU-PSU, Generic - Echosounder, Sidescan Sonar

Information to be Derived: Geophysical data.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Boomer (64 lines) (Jun 20-24), Sidescan (Jun 20-25), Boxcore (Jun 22).

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 98GFP02 FACS logs were generated by Karynna Calderon in December of
2002 using the handwritten logbooks and personal accounts of the crew members.

Location:

Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana

Boundaries
North: 30.34587073 South: 29.91642314 West: -90.21632552 East: -89.61296234

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Calderon, K., Dadisman, S.V., Kindinger, J.L., Williams, S.J., Flocks, J.G., Penland, S., Wiese, D.S., 2003, Archive of digital boomer seismic reflection data collected during USGS Cruises 94GFP01, 95GFP01, 96GFP01, 97GFP01, and 98GFP02 in Lakes Pontchartrain, Borgne, and Maurepas, Louisiana, 1994-1998: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2003-497, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr2003497.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 98GFP02 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=98GFP02.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
500-Shot Interval Navigation
Edited Shotpoint Navigation
ITI ST-5 streamer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Sparker
Boomer seismic data
Huntec ESU-PSU --- Boomer
Sub Bottom Profiler
Generic - Echosounder --- Single Beam
Sidescan Sonar --- Sidescan

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