Field Activity 1990-043-FA

Identifier 1990-043-FA
Alternate names JENA90-1
Purpose To conduct a high-resolution seismic survey and obtain surface and subsurface sediment samples in an effort to quantitatively determine the effects of Hurricane Hugo on a large sand and gravel deposit located off Vieques Island.
Location Escollo de Arena, Isla de Vieques, Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Project = Hurricane Hugo Response, Hurricane Hugo Response
Platform
Jean A
60 feet
Itinerary
Start Mosquito Pier, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico 1990-11-02
End Mosquito Pier, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico 1990-11-07
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -65.62485
East -65.49745626
North 18.17397936
South 18.12544178

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Lawrence J PoppeCatherine Delorey
Crew members
Lawrence J Poppe
Scientist, Staff
Dann S Blackwood
Scientist, Staff
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Catherine Delorey
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate staff USGS-Reston: Ronald Circe; USGS-San Juan: Rafael Rodrigues, Juan Trias, Milton Carlo

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sonar, Sampling, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Single Beam, Geology, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, locations of diver-assisted vibracores, hammer cores and Shipek grab samples, and seismic survey trackmap.
Navigation log Navigation notes regarding satellite fixes, Miniranger stations, and data acquisition for Leg 1 (FA 90043) and Leg 2 (FA 90046).
Core log Log describing acquisition by vibracore or diver-assisted hammer, with time, water depth, barrel length, recovered length, geological description, position.
Grab sampler log Grab log describing time, position, water depth, station identifier.
Geophysics log Geopulse log describing equipment configuration, performance, line start and end, Miniranger coordinates,

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 3
Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz) Boomer (no data reported)
ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder Single Beam (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology (no data reported)
Shipek grab Geology (no data reported)
Alpine Vibracorer Geology (no data reported)
Slide hammer corer Geology (no data reported)
Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1990-043-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( E/S) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1990-043-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1990-043-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
1990-043-FA-LN-001-01 Motorola Falcon IV Microwave relay Mini-Ranger Miniranger Data (txt file) Raw miniranger data. Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity