Field Activity 1986-033-FA

Identifier 1986-033-FA
Alternate names 125-2
Purpose This is an NSF funded cruise to study the processes acting on the base of the Florida Escarpment.
Location Florida Escarpment, Gulf of Mexico, Florida, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Info derived Morphology;
Comments Affiliation - Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Information derived from pre-cruise report and WHOI Cruise Data files; no post-cruise report found. Original Submitted By field contained: Dave Twichell and Bob Commeau. Project = Deep Sea Carbonate Escarpments, Deep Sea Carbonate Escarpments Information from Foghorn: sidescan sonar, photo, video, SeaBeam, water samples, sediment samples. Deep-tow system (Scripps)
Platform
Knorr
Length 279 feet; beam 46 feet; draft 16.5 feet.
Itinerary
Start Tampa, FL 1986-08-08
End Tampa, FL 1986-08-25
Days in the field 18
Bounds
West -88
East -80
North 28.5
South 23.5

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David C Twichell
Crew members
David C Twichell
Scientist, Staff
Robert Commeau
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Fred Spiess (Scripps); Charlie Paull (Scripps)
Affiliate staff Scripps: Fred Spiess - Ch. Sci., Charlie Paull - Research Geologist, Dwight Boegeman - Engineer, Robert Lawhead - Sr. Programmer, Robert Elder - Development Engineer, Andra Foster - Sr. Engineering Asst., Gary Austin - Marine Tech., Marie McIntyre - student, Phillip Hammer - student, Bradley DeRoos - Research Asst., Ronald Horn - Sr. Development Engineer; Univ. So. Florida: David Mearns - Research Assoc.; Univ. Georgia: Raymone Freeman-Lynde - Asst. Professor; Univ. No. Carolina: William Trumbull - student, Kathleen Keoughan - student; WHOI: Dana Wiese - Research Asst., John McMahon - Welder

Data types and categories

Data category: Sonar
Data type: Sidescan

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Sidescan sonar Sidescan (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity