Field Activity 2014-018-FA

Identifier 2014-018-FA
Alternate names NA052
Purpose Exploration of seamounts and tectonic geomorphology/earthquake hazards
Location British Virgin Islands/Anguilla/Puerto Rico
Summary 7 ROV dives, 174 samples, 2,773 km2 of bathymetry data, ~ 29,000 image captures, > 5TB of video
Info derived Bathymetry, grain size, radiocarbon ages, morphology, rock types, geochemistry, Ar/Ar
Comments Ship: E/V Nautilus Certainty: 100%
Projects
Platform
Nautilus
Length 211 feet; beam 34.5 feet; draft 14.75 feet.
Itinerary
Start San Juan, PR 2014-09-03
End San Juan, PR 2014-09-13
Days in the field 10
Bounds
West -65.0336
East -63.81405204
North 18.41675292
South 17.54271096

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten BrinkJason Chaytor
Crew members
Shannon Hoy
Scientist, Staff
Jason Chaytor
Scientist, Staff
Brian Andrews
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Brian Andrews
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Amanda Demopoulos

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Visual Identification
Data type: CTD, Photo, Video, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam, Species ID, Submersible Observations

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SBE 37 Microcat CTD CTD (no data reported)
ROV Photo, Video, Biology, Geology (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Push corer (wh) Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Geology, Biology, Chemistry (no data reported)
Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
EM 302 Multibeam (no data reported)
Submersible Observation Submersible Observations (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity