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    "tag": 6998,
    "title": "Acoustic backscatter data from USGS Field Activity S-8-08-SC, northern Santa Barbara Channel, southern California",
    "pubdate": "2010",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "2009-1289",
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/pcmsc\/SeriesReports\/OFR\/OFR_2009-1289\/S-8-08-SC_backscatter_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Acoustic backscatter data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in July 2008 in the northern Santa Barbara Channel in southern California. Data were collected aboard the R\/V Parke Snavely, during USGS Field Activity S-9-08-SC, using a bathymetric sidescan system.",
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            "name": "Dartnell, Peter",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Finlayson, David P.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Conrad, James E.",
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        },
        {
            "name": "Cochrane, Guy R.",
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        {
            "name": "Johnson, Samuel Y.",
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        },
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