AKA: none
Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Climate Change Impacts to the U.S. Pacific and Arctic Coasts (ZP00F00)
Principal Investigator(s): Cordell Johnson, Bruce Richmond
Affiliate Investigator(s): Slawek Tulaczyk, UC Santa Cruz
Information Specialist(s): Cordell Johnson
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Ground Penetrating Radar, Electro-Magnetic: Resistivity, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Sampling: Geology
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Instal theristor arrays, time lapse cameras, collect bluff samples, GPR and ERT transects
Vehicle(s): None
Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz, CA
End Port/Location: Kaktovik, AK
Start Date: 2016-05-20
End Date: 2016-09-30
Equipment Used: drillcore, electricalresistivity, groundpenetratingradar, video, camera, topographic profiling, GPS
Information to be Derived: Temperatureof permafrost, timelapse imagery coastal change, subsurface geology
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: sample locations submitted to FAD 11/15/2016
Staff: Cordell Johnson, Other
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: The permafrost samples we collected during our May sampling were collected using a gas powered hammer drill with 1.5" auger and 1.25" core drill attachments. We sampled at 0.5m increments to a depth of 3-8 meters depending on the site.
Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity AK 2015-624-FA
Field work in 2 phases, late May 2016, Late Sept 2016
Images from 2016 and 2017 archived under this FAN.
Location:
Coastal bluffs of Barter Island N-slope Alaska
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 70.1348118 | South: 70.1252243 | West: -143.74 | East: -143.58416138 |
Platform(s):
 Airplane |
Gibbs, A.E., Nolan, M., and Snyder, A.G., 2019, Orthophotomosaics, elevation point clouds, digital surface elevation models and supporting data from the north coast of Barter Island, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey data release.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| drillcore | --- | Geology | |
| electricalresistivity | --- | Resistivity | |
| groundpenetratingradar | --- | Ground Penetrating Radar Navigation | |
| video | --- | Video | |
| camera | --- | Photo | |
| topographic profiling | --- | Profiles Transects | |
| GPS | --- | Navigation |
