Field Activity 2005-019-FA

Identifier 2005-019-FA
Alternate names HE-105
Purpose Survey the Muertos Trough and the seismogenic zone north of the Virgin Islands.
Location Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, British Virgin Islands, Muertos Trough, Dominican Republic, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Highly successful cruise: all equipment operated well, and lines were collected as planned.
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Uri ten Brink - Scientist; Ed Sweeney - (March 28 - April 7) Visualization of multibeam bathymetry data; Tom O'Brien - (April 7 - April 15) Technical help with seismic acquisition. Project = GEOPRICO-DO, GEOPRICO-DO
Platform
Hesperides
Length 82.5 meters; beam 14.3 meters; draft 4.42 meters.
Itinerary
Start San Juan, Puerto Rico 2005-03-28
End Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic 2005-04-17
Days in the field 21
Bounds
West -71.25
East -63.5
North 20.25
South 17

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
Sweeney, Edward
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Uri Ten Brink
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Prof. Andres Carbo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Affiliate staff Andres Carbo, Diego Cordoba and Alfonso Munoz - Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Jose Martin Davila, Antonio Pazos, Manuel Catalan - Royal Naval Observatory, Spain; Pedro Herrandz - IEO, Spain; Christa von Hillebrandt, Victor Huerfano, and Jay Pulliam - Puerto Rico Seismic Network; Juan Payero - Instituto Sismologico Universitario / Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo (UASD-ISU)

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Seismics, Environmental Data, Electro-Magnetic
Data type: Multibeam, Multichannel, Temperature, Sub Bottom Profiler, Magnetics, Gravity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Simrad EM120 Multibeam (no data reported)
Simrad EM1002 Multibeam (no data reported)
Multichannel seismics Multichannel (no data reported)
XBT Temperature (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Marine magnetometer Magnetics (no data reported)
Gravity meter (wh) Gravity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity