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

Field Activity 1997-003-FA

Identifier 1997-003-FA
Purpose Multichannel seismic and multibeam sonar survey near oceanic plate fracture controlling earthquake, tilting, landslides, and tsunami near Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
Location offshore northeast Puerto Rico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Multichannel seismic reflection profiles; Multibeam bathymetry; Gravity; Magnetics.
Info derived Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Morphology;
Comments Project = PRICO-97, PRICO-97
Platform
Hesperides
Length 82.5 meters; beam 14.3 meters; draft 4.42 meters.
Itinerary
Start San Juan, Puerto Rico 1997-05-04
End San Juan, Puerto Rico 1997-05-12
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -65.75
East -63
North 20.75
South 19.25

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
Uri Ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Thomas F O'Brien
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Loss, Jeremy
Scientist, Staff
Taylor, Michael
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Taylor, Michael
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Juan Acosta - Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia-Madrid
Affiliate staff Kevin O'Toole, Harold Williams - Western C&MG; Juan Acosta, Araceli Munoz, Carlos Palomo, P. Herranz, J.L. Sanz, J. Molinero - Instituto Espanol de Oceanografia; Ramon Vegas, Andres Carbo - Universidad de Complutense de Madrid; Juan Tomas Vazquez - Universidad de Cadiz; Dwight Coleman - University of Rhode Island; Nancy Grindlay - University of North Carolina; F. Delano - University of Puerto Rico

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation
Data type: Photo, Video, Geology, Multichannel, Multibeam, Magnetics, Gravity, Navigation

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
P-code GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity (no data reported)
Magnetometer (wh) Magnetics (no data reported)
Multibeam swath bathymetry Multibeam (no data reported)
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity