1995-021-FA (CMHRP activity #1327)

Field Activity 1995-021-FA

Identifier

1995-021-FA

Purpose

Shelf sand resources reconnaissance.

Location

Isla Culebra, Isla Vieques, Puerto Rico, United States, Caribbean Sea, North America, North Atlantic;

Comments

Original Center People field contained: Dave Nichols - ET/MT; Kenneth Parolski - ET/MT. Project = Puerto Rico Insular Shelf Reconnaissance Mapping, Puerto Rico Insular Shelf Reconnaissance Mapping

URL

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/openfile/of97-290/

Platform

Isla Magueyes

71 feet

Itinerary

Start	Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico	1995-07-12
End	Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico	1995-07-23
Days in the field	9

Bounds

West	-65.6675
East	-65.2684
North	18.35698
South	18.11322

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

David Folger

Crew members

David R Nichols	Scientist, Staff
Kenneth Parolski	Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Monty Hampton - Menlo Park

Affiliate staff

Michael Torresan - Menlo - watchstander; Juan Trias - San Juan - watchstander;

Data types and categories

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

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, grab sample locations and descriptions, and sidescan sonar line list.
Seismic log	Boomer and 3.5 kHz equipment configuration, line start and end times, data acquisition notes. Also includes trackmap.
Sample log	Station log for Shipek sampler containing sample number, location, water depth, and visual description.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
GPS (wh)	Navigation	1
ORE GeoPulse	Boomer	(no data reported)
ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler	Sub Bottom Profiler	1
Shipek grab	Geology	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1995-021-FA-LN-001	GPS (wh)	Navigation trackline plot for field activity 95021	Nancy K. Soderberg
1995-021-FA-SE-001	ORE 140 transceiver/1036 transducer sub-bottom profiler	Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines	Nancy K. Soderberg