1990-013-FA (CMHRP activity #1084)

Field Activity 1990-013-FA

Identifier

1990-013-FA

Alternate names

KJ-90-1, KJ-90-2

Purpose

Collect nearshore and Mississippi Sound high-resolution seismics as part of coastal project to study coastal erosion and offshore sand resources.

Location

Mississippi Sound, Mississippi, Alabama, Gulf of Mexico, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Summary

GeoPulse: 18 lines, 410 km.

Info derived

Sea floor map;

Comments

Project = MS/AL/USGS Cooperative, MS/AL/USGS Cooperative

Platform

Kit Jones

Length 60 feet; beam 15.7 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Gulfport, MS	1990-06-21
End	Gulfport, MS	1990-06-27
Days in the field	7

Bounds

West	-89.20887783
East	-87.47741053
North	30.34917609
South	29.12603244

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

Kenneth Parolski

Crew members

Kenneth Parolski

Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Randolph McBride, LA Geol. Survey, Leg 1; Mark Byrnes, Louisiana Geol. Survey, Leg 2

Affiliate staff

Jerry Taft, MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Chuck O'Hara, MS Minerals Tech. Cent.; Brian Blanchard, LGS (Leg 1 only).

Data types and categories

Data category:	Seismics, Location-Elevation
Data type:	Boomer, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sparker, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise report	Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, and trackmap. Also has pre-cruise report with similar information.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
ORE GeoPulse	Boomer	(no data reported)
Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Sparker	2
GPS (wh)	Navigation	1
Loran-C	Navigation	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1990-013-FA-SE-001	Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer	analog tape of seismic data	Nancy K. Soderberg
Scanned record sections of Boomer data	Benthos AQ-4 10-element hydrophone streamer		Linda P McCarthy
Nav data	GPS (wh)		Linda P McCarthy