1990-013-FA (CMHRP activity #1084)

Field Activity 1990-013-FA

Identifier

1990-013-FA

Alternate names

KJ-90-1, KJ-90-2

Purpose

Collect nearshore and Mississippi Sound high-resolution seismics as part of coastal project to study coastal erosion and offshore sand resources.

Location

Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, Alabama, Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

GeoPulse: 18 lines, 410 km.

Info derived

Sea floor map;

Comments

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

Platform

Kit Jones

Length 60 feet; beam 15.7 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Gulfport, MS	1990-06-21
End	Gulfport, MS	1990-06-27
Days in the field	7

Bounds

West	-89.20887783
East	-87.47741053
North	30.34917609
South	29.12603244

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

Kenneth Parolski

Crew members

Kenneth Parolski

Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Randolph McBride, LA Geol. Survey, Leg 1; Mark Byrnes, Louisiana Geol. Survey, Leg 2

Affiliate staff

Jerry Taft, MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Chuck O'Hara, MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Brian Blanchard, LGS (Leg 1 only).

Data types and categories

Data category:	Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type:	Boomer, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Survey Equipment	Description
Cruise report	(document not focused on specific equipment)	Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, and trackmap. Also has pre-cruise report with similar information.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
ORE GeoPulse	Boomer	(no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker	2
GPS (wh)	Navigation	1
Loran-C	Navigation	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1990-013-FA-SE-001	Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer	analog tape of seismic data	Nancy K. Soderberg
Scanned record sections of Boomer data	Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer		Linda P McCarthy
Nav data	GPS (wh)		Linda P McCarthy