Field Activity 1993-027-FA

Identifier 1993-027-FA
Alternate names JENA 93-2
Purpose Collect high-resolution seismic reflection data and bottom samples to map surficial sediments, geologic structure and morphology of the insular sea floor.
Location off Humacao, southeast Puerto Rico, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Kathy Scanlon - ch. sci.; Barry Irwin - navigation; Ken Parolski - elec. tech. Project = PR insular shelf studies, PR insular shelf studies
Platform
Jean A
60 feet
Itinerary
Start Yabucoa, Puerto Rico 1993-11-06
End San Juan, Puerto Rico 1993-11-12
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -66.2585
East -65.64331
North 18.30238
South 17.81146

Personnel

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

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sampling, Location-Elevation
Data type: Boomer, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Geology, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, printout of sample locations, and maps of tracklines and sample locations.
Cruise log Watchstanders' seismic logbook with line starts and ends and performance problems, waypoints (time only) for sample stations.
Navigation log DGPS navigation printout with 5 minute fixes containing Julian day, time, latitude and longitude, speed and bearing,and hand annotated sample stations and line numbers.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Huntec profiling system (500-2500 Hz) Boomer (no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker 2
ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Shipek grab Geology (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1993-027-FA-SE-001 Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-027-FA-SE-002 Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-027-FA-LN-001 DGPS Navigation trackline plot for field activity 93027 Nancy K. Soderberg
1993-027-FA-LN-002 DGPS Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPSL1-8, NAV-DGPSL9-16*, NAV-DGPSL17-27, NAV-EDITDGPS, NAV-RAWDGPS, Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity