1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 1990-028-FA

Identifier 1990-028-FA
Alternate names ERDA-90-2, Legs MB-90-1, MB-90-2, and AL-90-1
Purpose Collect nearshore and Mobile Bay high-resolution seismic data as part of coastal project to study coastal erosion; includes surficial water samples to correlate to satellite photos.
Location Mobile Bay, Alabama, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = MS/AL/USGS Cooperative, MS/AL/USGS Cooperative
Platform
Erda-1
Length 24 feet.
Itinerary
Start Mobile, AL 1990-08-12
End Dauphin Island, AL 1990-08-24
Days in the field 13
Bounds
West -88.5
East -87.3
North 30.75
South 30

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jack L Kindinger
Crew members
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Guy Gelfenbaum, USGS, St. Petersburg, FL
Affiliate staff Richard Hummel, Alabama Geological Survey; Steve Parker, Alabama Geological Survey; Dana Wiese, USGS-St. Petersburg, FL

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report personnel, purpose, equipment, trackmap.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GeoPulse uniboom Boomer (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity