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Field Activity Details for field activity 1983-012-FA

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Other ID: L-5-83-HW,83012

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Frank T. Manheim

Affiliate Investigator(s): Frank Manheim

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: CTD, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Investigate ferromanganese crusts with emphasis on cobalt-rich crusts via dredging and hard substrate corer (Manheim-Burke type), sidescan sonar, photography, water sampling, and bottom instrument packaging emplacement on Horizon Seamount.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

End Port/Location: Pago Pago, American Samoa and Pago Pago, American Samoa

Start Date: 1983-10-29

End Date: 1983-11-26

Equipment Used: Air gun, Sidescan sonar, Video camera - deep sea, Box corer, Slow corer, Grab sampler, Gravity corer, Dredge, Loran-C, Single channel hydrophone, 3.5khz, 12khz, airgun, sidescansonar, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision, boxcore, pistoncore, Soutargrab, gravitycore, chaindredge, CTD, penetrometer, 3.5 kHz

Information to be Derived: Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Samples and chemical analysis;

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Lines: 36; Gravity cores: 3; Piston cores: 7; Chain dredge samples: 62.

Staff: Frank T. Manheim, William Schwab

Affiliate Staff:
George Tate
Geologist; Jeff Stampfer
Mechanical Technician; Jim Nicholson
Electronics Technician; Kevin O'Toole
Mechanical Technician; Michael Boyle
Electronics Technician; Aaron Dunwald
Chief Engineer; Alice Davis
Watchstander; Hank Chezar
Watchstander; Joe Ritchey
Watchstander; John Robinson
Watchstander; Robin Bouse
Navigator; Kaye Kinoshita
Navigator; Rosemary Sliney
Navigator; Doris Puteanus
Watchstander - Technical University
Clausthal
Germany; Vesna Marchig
Watchstander - German Geological Survey
Bill Schwab - Geologist
Joe Ritchey - Watchstander

Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-5-83-hw.070, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 6590 kilometers.

Location:

Kingman Island

Boundaries
North: 22.76492674 South: -5.38268992 West: -169.85304088 East: -157.49033147

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Hein, J.R., Manheim, F.T., Schwab, W.C., Davis, A.S., Daniel, C.L., Bouse, R.M., Morgenson, L.A., Sliney, R.E., Clague, D., Tate, G.B., and Cacchione, D.A., 1985, Geological and geochemical data for seamounts and associated ferromanganese crusts in and near the Hawaiian, Johnston Island and Palmyra Island Exclusive Economic Zones: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-292, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr85292.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Air gun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
Video camera - deep sea --- Video
Box corer --- Biology
Geology
Slow corer --- Geology
Grab sampler --- Biology
Geology
Gravity corer --- Geology
Dredge --- Biology
Geology
Loran-C --- Navigation
1983-012-FA-LN-001 (Navigation data)
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
1983-012-FA-SE-001 (microfilm of FROM MENLO-DONATED BY SCHWAB)
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
12khz --- Single Beam
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
underwatercamera --- Photo
underwatertelevision --- Video
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
pistoncore --- Geology
Soutargrab --- Geology
gravitycore --- Geology
chaindredge --- Geology
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
penetrometer --- Geology
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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