Field Activity 1969-001-FA

Identifier 1969-001-FA
Alternate names ATTW PR II; CORPUS 4, T-1-69-PR, T-01-69-PR
Purpose Sparker survey of Muertos Shelf, southeast Puerto Rico, and dredge sample Mona Passage.
Location south coast Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Mona Passage, United States, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Sparker lines: 12; Dredges: 2.
Comments Added InfoBank ID's 11/7/2017 Original Center People field contained: Louis Garrison - Ch. Sci., Corpus Christi; John Duncan - temp, Princeton; Porter Barry Irwin - Corpus Christi; Jack Lee - Corpus Christi; James Trumbull - San Juan.
Platform
Atlantic Twin
90 foot steel catamaran hull research vessel with a 7 foot draft.
Itinerary
Start Ponce, Puerto Rico 1969-01-17
End Mayaguez, Puerto Rico 1969-01-29
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -67.99748685
East -66.42618477
North 18.5218623
South 17.77745889

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Louis E. Garrison
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Louis E. Garrison
Scientist, Staff
James Trumbull
Scientist, Staff
Lee, Jack
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff Jaimie Biaggi - Fomento; Greg Telek - Puerto Rico Nuclear Center/UPR-Mayaguez; John Duncan - USGS temp., Princeton

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sparker

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise log Chief Scientist's daily log of data collection, equipment notes, ship movement, etc. The scanned logbook cover also refer to 2 other field activities - 1968-001-FA and 1968-002-FA, but the contents of the PDF are specific to this cruise.
Navigation log Navigation log.
Equipment log Geophysics log including Sparker equipment, line, tape notes, ship movement, and dredge sample notes.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)
Seismic reflection Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker 1
Grab sampler Biology, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1969-001-FA-SE-001 Seismic reflection Zip archive of seismic lines 1,3,4,5,9,13,14 Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity