Field Activity 2021-307-FA

Identifier 2021-307-FA
Purpose To collect Single-beam bathymetry within Grand Bay and Point Au Chenes Bay, AL/MS
Location Grand Bay and Point Aux Chenes Bay, AL/MS
Summary Collected 188 SBES lines, 74 SV casts and 3 days worth of base station data.
Info derived Singlebeam bathymetry x,y,z soundings and bathymetry grids.
Comments 21CCT01 = Jet Ski = RV Shark (white) collecting Single beam bathymetry 21CCT02 = Jet Ski = RV Chum (blue) collecting Single beam bathymetry; Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-315-FA as a portion of the data collected will be a repeat of the 2015 survey. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-324-FA - original field effort which was postponed.
Projects
Platform
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Blue WaveRunner; R/V Chum
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
White WaveRunner, R/V Shark
Vehicles
Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2021-03-01
End St. Petersburg, FL 2021-03-07
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -88.5373
East -88.30902148
North 30.42732018
South 30.2790872
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Christopher G Smith
Crew members
Chelsea A Stalk
Scientist, Staff
Hunter S Wilcox
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Chelsea A Stalk
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar, Location-Elevation
Data type: Sound Velocity, Single Beam, Navigation, Benchmarks

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Castaway-CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)
SBG Ellipse A Motion Sensor Single Beam (no data reported)
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single Beam 8
Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography), Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
SP90 GNSS Receiver Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Grand_Bay_2021_ NAD83_NAVD88_G12A_DEM.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Bathymetry DEM, 10-m cell size in NAD83 NAVD88 Geoid 12A and the accompanying boundary shapefile Chelsea A Stalk
Grand_Bay_2021_ SBES_Tracklines.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry tracklines in WGS84 (G1762) Chelsea A Stalk
Grand_Bay_2021_SBES_xyz.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry xyz data in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B Chelsea A Stalk
Grand_Bay_Point_Aux_Chenes_ 2021_Extent.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Polygon files representing extend of data coverage Chelsea A Stalk
Grand_Bay_Point_Aux_Chenes_ 2021_ShorelinePoints.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Shoreline points adapted from Terrano and Smith, 2021 Chelsea A Stalk
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ NAD83_NAVD88_G12A_DEM.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Bathymetry DEM, 10-m cell size in NAD83 NAVD88 Geoid 12A and the accompanying boundary shapefile Chelsea A Stalk
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ SBES_Tracklines.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry tracklines in WGS84 (G1762) Chelsea A Stalk
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ SBES_xyz.zip ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry xyz data in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B Chelsea A Stalk

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity