1969-001-FA (CMHRP activity #411)

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

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

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	Survey Equipment	Description
Cruise log	(document not focused on specific equipment)	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	Loran-C	Navigation log.
Equipment log	(document not focused on specific equipment)	Geophysics log including Sparker equipment, line, tape notes, ship movement, and dredge sample notes.

Equipment used

Equipment	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