Summary Information for Field Activity 2003-008-FA

Area of Operations: Puerto Rico trench, Puerto Rico, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: February 18, 2003 to March 08, 2003

Chief scientist: Uri ten Brink

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration, NOAA Hydrographic Survey-Atlantic Branch

Objectives: Map the Puerto Rico trench using multibeam bathymetry.

Type of Activity: Sea floor mapping;Sea floor mapping

Information to be derived: Sea floor map;

Summary:

Contact: Jen Martin (jlmartin@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier B-1-03-PR. Visit this site for more information.

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Platform Info:

RONALD H BROWN

Publications resulting from these data

ten Brink, Uri, Danforth, William, Polloni, Christopher F., Parker, Castle Eugene, Uozumi, Toshihiko, and Williams, Glynn F.,2005, Project PROBE Leg II; final report and archive of swath bathymetric sonar, CTD/XBT and GPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise 03008 (NOAA Cruise RB0303) Puerto Rico Trench 18 February - 7 March, 2003: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1400, DVD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1400/)

Whitmore, Paul, ten Brink, Uri, Caropolo, Michael, Huerfano-Moreno, Victor, Knight, William, Sammler, William, and Sandrik, Al,2009, NOAA/West Coast and Alaska Tsunami Warning Center Atlantic Ocean response criteria: Science of Tsunami Hazards, v. 28, no. 2: p. 86-107. (Also available at http://tsunamisociety.org/282WhitmoreEtAla.pdf)

Data Types and Locations:

Bathymetry

Navigation

Logs

Sonar