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

Field Activity 2017-305-FA

Identifier 2017-305-FA
Alternate names 17TST01, 17TST02, 17TST03, 17TST04, 17TST05
Purpose Equipment testing
Location St. Petersburg, Florida
Summary All data have been uploaded to the SFM-Working server.
Info derived Equipment testing prior to summer field work.
Comments Each vessel will collect specific data types and be assigned a sub-FAN, as follows: 17TST01- R/V Sallenger 17TST02- Twin Vee 17TST03- PWC1 17TST04- PWC2 17TST05- Navigation poles and wheels
Projects
Platform
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Blue WaveRunner; R/V Chum
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
White WaveRunner, R/V Shark
Sallenger
26' Parker
22-ft Twin Vee (R/V G. Hill)
This boat has a carrying capacity of up to 1500 pounds and up to 7 people and a shallow draft (9 inches empty). This boat's cat hull design results in a smoother ride in choppy water, at the expense of a slightly deeper draft. This boat is powered by two Yamaha 70hp motors.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2017-02-01
End St. Petersburg, FL 2017-02-28
Bounds
West -82.74627686
East -82.45098877
North 27.86138748
South 27.69276578
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Christopher D Reich
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Nancy T DeWitt
Scientist, Staff
Kyle W Kelso
Scientist, Staff
Joseph J Fredericks
Scientist, Staff
Andrew S Farmer
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Nancy T DeWitt
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Profiles, Bubble Gun, Sub Bottom Profiler, Multibeam, Sidescan, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Pole Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data expected)
F190 DGPS/IMU Navigation 1
Chirp 512i Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Bubble Pulser Hydrophone Streamer Bubble Gun (no data reported)
Singlebeam Echosounder Single Beam 2
SeaBat T20 (WH) Multibeam 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_tracklines F190 DGPS/IMU Single-beam trackline shapefile in WGS84 Nancy Dewitt
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_20m_DEM Singlebeam Echosounder Single-beam bathymetry DEM, 20-m cell size, in WGS84 (ITRF08) Nancy Dewitt
Madeira_Beach_2017_SBES_xyz Singlebeam Echosounder Processed elevation point data (xyz) provided in both WGS84 (ITRF08) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B Nancy Dewitt
Madeira_Beach_2017_MBES_1m_xyz SeaBat T20 (WH) Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (ITRF08) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B Chelsea A Stalk

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity