1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2003-032-FA

Identifier 2003-032-FA
Alternate names RB03-05
Purpose Complete multibeam bathymetry survey of the Puerto Rico trench.
Location Puerto Rico trench, Puerto Rico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;
Summary SeaBeam bathy: 1085 km.
Info derived Sea floor map;
Comments Original Center People field contained: Uri ten Brink - Chief Scientist; William Danforth - Data processing; Christopher Polloni - Data archiving and display. Project = Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazard, Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazard
Platform
Ronald H. Brown
Length: 274 feet; Beam: 53 feet
Itinerary
Start St. Maarten, Dutch Antilles 2003-08-28
End St. Petersburg, FL 2003-09-04
Days in the field 8
Bounds
West -69.38602173
East -61.99584961
North 20.42930021
South 18.5016041

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
William W Danforth
Scientist, Staff
Uri Ten Brink
Scientist, Staff
Polloni, Christopher F.
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Polloni, Christopher F.
Specialist, Information
Soderberg, Nancy K.
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal NOAA Ocean Exploration
Affiliate staff Khoura Gibson - Teacher at Sea; Eran Kaplan - Student; Joram ten Brink - Film maker

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Temperature, Navigation, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Temperature and salinity CTD, Temperature (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SeaBeam 2112 Multibeam (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity