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Field Activity Details for field activity 1980-008-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Kathleen Kent

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker

Scientific Purpose/Goals: This was a preliminary survey to define survey requirements according to lake bottom conditions and water depth, determine feasibility of bringing the NEECHO and a twelve channel streamer into the lake, and find locations for MiniRanger navigation stations.

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End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1980-05-21

End Date: 1980-05-23

Equipment Used: Boomer, Compass, Single channel hydrophone, Sparker

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Scientists used a 20 ft. scow provided by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 28 km of 35-joule minisparker and 100-joule Uniboom data were collected.

Staff: Frank W. Jennings, Kathleen Kent, Paul Loud

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Rend Lake, Illinois, United States, North America;

Boundaries
North: 38.1907 South: 38.00049 West: -89.0607 East: -88.87939

Platform(s):


Scow

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's cruise report including information about personnel, equipment, summary of data collection and a small track map.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Boomer --- Boomer
Compass --- Navigation
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
Sparker --- Sparker

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