Field Activity 1991-012-FA

Identifier 1991-012-FA
Alternate names ERDA-91-1
Purpose Conduct high-resolution single-channel seismics survey of Mobile Bay and eastern Mississippi Sound, Alabama.
Location Mobile Bay, Alabama, Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, United States, Gulf of Mexico, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Fairly good shallow water seismic data first 3 days; bad weather rest of the time.
Comments Project = AL-MS Pollution Project, AL-MS Pollution Project
Platform
Erda-1
Length 24 feet.
Itinerary
Start Dauphin Island, AL 1991-05-15
End Dauphin Island, AL 1991-05-20
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -88.34
East -87.66
North 30.42
South 30.16

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Jack L Kindinger
Crew members
Affiliate principal Gregg Brooks - USF
Affiliate staff Dana Wiese - USGS-St. Pete; Richard Hummel - GSA (Tuscaloosa, AL); Steve Parker - GSA (Tuscaloosa, AL)

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, and trackmap.

Equipment used

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

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity