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Field Activity Details for field activity 1988-013-FA

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Other ID: PLSTAR-1; P-1-88-AR

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): David Nichols

Affiliate Investigator(s): Art Grantz, PMG

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To gather digital seismic reflection and refraction data and to ground truth the Chuckchi Borderland area.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: Barrows, AK

Start Date: 1988-08-30

End Date: 1988-09-29

Equipment Used: Piston corer, Gravity corer, Edo Western Sidescan and 2.5 kHz sub-bottom system, Box corer, GPS (wh), Loran-C

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Nichols

Affiliate Staff:
PMG: Art Grantz
Larry Phillips
Erk Reimeitz
Jim Vaughan
John Gann
Jon Childs
Kevin O'Toole
Jeff Stampher
Bill La Fleur
Dave Dinter
Pat Hart; Alaska Branch: Mike Mullen
Steve May; WHOI: Alan Gagnon

Notes: All data archived by Pacific Marine Geology division.

Information from Foghorn: DFS V, Airguns, Sonobuoys, SUS Charges, Piston core, gravity core, box core;

Location:

Chukchi Sea, Alaska, United States, North America, Arctic Ocean;

Boundaries
North: 75.19327895 South: 66.82267772 West: -168.75 East: -153.73122405

Platform(s):

photo of Polar Star
Polar Star

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Sparse Chief Scientist's report including personnel, equipment, and a sentence describing the purpose.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Piston corer --- Geology
Gravity corer --- Geology
Edo Western Sidescan and 2.5 kHz sub-bottom system --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Sidescan
Box corer --- Biology
Geology
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
Loran-C --- Navigation
1988-013-FA-LN-001 (Navigation data)

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