Field Activity 1986-030-FA

Identifier 1986-030-FA
Alternate names S2-86
Purpose Collect gravity data in Jamaican, Honduran, and Colombian waters.
Location Kingston, Jamaica, western Caribbean Sea, North Atlantic;
Summary Gravity data were collected along 5727 km of 18 km-spaced tracklines in the area between Jamaica and Honduras.
Comments Project = Parent Project: Defense Mapping Agency Gravity, Parent Project: Defense Mapping Agency Gravity
Platform
Starella
Length: 73 meters; Beam: 11 meters.
Itinerary
Start Kingston, Jamaica 1986-11-25
End Kingston, Jamaica 1986-12-21
Days in the field 26
Bounds
West -87
East -77
North 17
South 15

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators James Dodd
Crew members
David H Mason
Scientist, Staff
David Folger
Scientist, Staff
James Dodd
Scientist, Staff
William J. Strahle
Scientist, Staff
George R. Driscoll
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal John Gann - USGS-Menlo Park
Affiliate staff John Gann - Chief Scientist, USGS-Menlo Park; Ed Pinson - DMA, Cheyenne; Rene Chinchilla - Navy, Honduras; Hugo Canas - Ingeominas, Colombia

Data types and categories

Data category: Electro-Magnetic, Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Gravity, Navigation, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 Gravity 1
Magnavox System 5000 integrated navigation system Navigation 1
12 kHz Single Beam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1986-030-FA-GP-001 LaCoste-Romberg gravimeter G-179 Digital tape(s) of NV/GRAV ARCHIVE, Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-030-FA-LN-001 Magnavox System 5000 integrated navigation system Digital tape(s) of NV/GRAV ARCHIVE, Nancy K. Soderberg
1986-030-FA-SE-001 12 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 12K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity