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

Field Activity 2020-324-FA

Identifier 2020-324-FA -- CANCELED
Purpose To collect Single-beam bathymetry within Grand Bay and Point Au Chenes Bay, AL/MS
Location Grand Bay and Point Au Chenes Bay, AL/MS
Summary Trip Postponed to early 2021 - Will generate new FAN accordingly
Info derived Singlebeam bathymetry x,y,z soundings and bathymetry grids.
Comments 20CCT01 = Jet Ski = RV Shark (white)collecting Single beam bathymetry 20CCT02 = Jet Ski = RV Chum (blue)collecting Single beam bathymetry; Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-315-FA as a portion of the data collected will be a repeat of the 2015 survey.
Projects
Platform
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Blue WaveRunner; R/V Chum
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
White WaveRunner, R/V Shark
Vehicles
Ford F-350 Dually Grey (GSA)
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2020-10-25
End St. Petersburg, FL 2020-11-07
Days in the field 6
Bounds
West -88.5373
East -88.30902148
North 30.42732018
South 30.2790872
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Christopher G Smith
Crew members
Chelsea A Stalk
Scientist, Staff
Hunter S Wilcox
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Chelsea A Stalk
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type: Benchmarks, Navigation, Single Beam, Sound Velocity

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
SP90 GNSS Receiver Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
Tripods Mooring (physical oceanography), Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single Beam (no data reported)
SBG Ellipse A Motion Sensor Single Beam (no data reported)
Castaway-CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity