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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-612-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): Other, USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)

Principal Investigator(s): Daniel Brothers, Janet Watt

Affiliate Investigator(s): Brian Sherrod, USGS Seattle; Scott Bennett, USGS Seattle; Emily Roland, University of Washington

Information Specialist(s): Janet Watt

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Characterize recent deformation and estimate earthquake recurrence on the Seattle Fault zone

Vehicle(s): MarFac; Ford 650 Box truck - White G71-03559

Start Port/Location: Seattle, WA

End Port/Location: Seattle, WA

Start Date: 2017-02-18

End Date: 2017-02-28

Equipment Used: Other, Other, Multichannel, 512 chirp-source, 512 chirp, Mini sparker

Information to be Derived: MCS sparker, MCS boomer, chirp sub-bottom

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Data submitted to FAD 3/7/2017 We collected multi-channel sparker and towed chirp sub-bottom data in Puget Sound and multi-channel boomer and towed chirp sub-bottom data in Lake Washington

Staff: Rachel Marcuson, Robert Wyland

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: R/V Barnes, UW vessel
Working with USGS Earthquake Science Center in Seattle, WA and Univ. of Washington faculty (Emily Roland)

Location:

Puget Sound, Washington

Boundaries
North: 48.10412981 South: 47.20861616 West: -122.85736084 East: -122.11712646

Platform(s):

photo of Clifford A. Barnes
Clifford A. Barnes

Publications

Balster-Gee, A.F., Watt, J.T., Roland, E.C., Kluesner, J.W., Brothers, D.S., Bennett, S., Hart, P.E., Myers, E.K., Pszczola, K., Walton, M.A.L., and Sherrod, B., 2021, Multichannel minisparker, multichannel boomer, and chirp seismic-reflection data of USGS field activity 2017-612-FA collected in Puget Sound and Lake Washington in February of 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GWF28U.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
Other --- --- ---
Multichannel --- Multichannel
Multichannel boomer data (High-resolution multichannel boomer seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington in February of 2017 east of Seattle in Lake Washington, Washington.)
Multichannel minisparker data (High-resolution multichannel minisparker seismic-reflection data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington in February of 2017 west of Seattle in Puget Sound and in Lake Washington, Washington. )
512 chirp-source --- Sub Bottom Profiler
512 chirp --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp sub-bottom data (High-resolution chirp sub-bottom data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Washington in February of 2017 west of Seattle in Puget Sound and in Lake Washington, Washington.)
Mini sparker --- Sparker

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