Field Activity 1993-025-FA

Identifier 1993-025-FA
Alternate names JEAN-A 1993 Leg 01
Purpose Collect sediment samples and high-resolution seismic reflections profiles; dive.
Location Grappler Bank, south coast, Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary Beach sampling was conducted 10/06/93; shallow water sediment samples were collected 10/10/93 aboard a rubber boat.
Comments Project = Puerto Rico Marine Geologic Maps, Puerto Rico Marine Geologic Maps
Platform
Jean A
60 feet
Itinerary
Start Las Mareas Harbor, Guayama, Puerto Rico 1993-10-27
End Las Mareas Harbor, Guayama, Puerto Rico 1993-11-05
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -67.0605
East -65.61035
North 17.99841
South 17.62308

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Kenneth Parolski
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Juan Luis Trias - USGS BAMG-San Juan
Affiliate staff Juan Trias - ch. sci.; Milton Carlo - geologist, San Juan

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sampling
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Geology, Biology, Chemistry

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, sample locations.
Navigation log GPS and DGPS navigation printout with 5-minute fixes containing julian day, time, latitude, longitude, speed, bearing and hand annotations for start and end of lines.
Cruise log Seismic log with start and end of lines, waypoints (time only recorded) for grab samples.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
DGPS Navigation 2
Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz) Boomer (no data reported)
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler 2
Shipek grab Geology (no data reported)
Van Veen grab sampler Geology (no data reported)
SCUBA Biology, Chemistry, Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1993-025-FA-LN-001-01 DGPS Seismic trackline map. Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-025-FA-LN-002 DGPS Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-GPSL1-4, NAV-DGPSL4A-11, NAV-DGPSL14-18*, NAV-DGPSL12-25, NAV-GPSGRABS1-25, NAV-DGPS, NAV-DGPSSTA35-73, NAV-RAWDGPS, NAV-EDITDGPS, Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-025-FA-SE-001 3.5 kHz Collection of paper record displays of seismic data (3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-025-FA-SE-002 3.5 kHz microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity