Other ID: 09007,L-7-09-AR
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Deborah Hutchinson
Affiliate Investigator(s): David Mosher, Geological Survey of Canada,David Mosher (Chief Scientist) - Geological Survey of Canada, Debbie Hutchinson
Information Specialist(s): Deborah Hutchinson, PARTNER
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Seismics: Multichannel, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity, Visual Identification: Species ID, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sediment thickness mapping using multichannel seismics and sonobuoys on the potential U.S. extended continental shelf north of Alaska.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
End Port/Location: Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada and Kugluktuk, Nunavut, Canada
Start Date: 2009-08-06
End Date: 2009-09-16
Equipment Used: Gravity meter (wh), YSI multiparameter sonde, DGPS, Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R, Sensor - SVP, SBE 9 CTD, XCTD, Water sampler, Visual Mammal ID, 12 kHz, Multichannel seismics, Seismic refraction
Information to be Derived: Notes/logs;Seismic;Other geophysical
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 4062 km of 16-channel multichannel seismic data 51 sonobuoys (46 good) 8355 line km 12 kHz echo sounder 177 Helicopter spot soundings 9 CTD Rosettes 72 XCTDs Underway measurement of seawater salinity, temperature, flourescence, gas tension, and oxygen saturation. Underway ice observations (log) Underway marine mammal observations (log)
Staff: Deborah Hutchinson, Borden Chapman
Affiliate Staff:
David Mosher - Chief Scientist; John Shimeld - GSC (lead seismic analyst); Borden Chapman - lead seismic operations
John Shimeld (lead seismic analyst
) - GSC
Notes: Cruise dates may vary. This is planned as a two-icebreaker experiment (with USCGC Healy). This is planned as a two-icebreaker experiment (with USCGC Healy). 18. Report Date: 11:35 8/3/2009
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Deborah Hutchinson - Chief Scientist
David Mosher (Chief Scientist) - Geological Survey of Canada
John Shimeld (lead seismic analyst, ) - GSC
Borden Chapman - lead seismic operations
Non USGS data manager = Debbie Hutchinson
Information from Foghorn: Multichannel seismic system; Sonobuoys; Calibrated hydrophone; XCTD, SVP (velocity of water); 12 kHz single beam echo sounder
Location:
Arctic Ocean
Boundaries | |||
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North: 85 | South: 67.5 | West: -170 | East: -110 |
Platform(s):
Louis S St Laurent | Healy |
Hutchinson, D., Houseknecht, D., Mosher, D., Hart, P., Jackson, R., Lebedeva-Ivanova, N., Shimeld, J., and Chian, D., The Chukchi Borderland: a sediment-starved rifted continental margin [abs.]: , 2013 Fall AGU Meeting. San Francisco,CA, December 9-13, 2013.
Hutchinson, D.R., and Barth, G.A., 2010, Continental margins and the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project: MARGINS/GeoPRISMS Newsletter, no. 25, URL: http://www.nsf-margins.org/Publications/Newsletters/Issue25.pdf.
Hutchinson, D.R., Houseknecht, D.W., and Mosher, D.C., 2023, Canada Basin tectono-sedimentary element, Arctic Ocean: Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 57, https://doi.org/10.1144/M57-2022-49.
Lebedeva-Ivanova, N., Hutchinson, D.R., Shimeld, J., Brumley, K., Chian, D., Hart, P., Mosher, D., and Jackson, R., Inferred Mesozoic Origin of the Nautilus Basin, Arctic Ocean [abs.]: , 3P Arctic â The Polar Petroleum Potential Conference and Exhibition. Stavanger, Norway, 15-18 October, 2013.
Mosher, D.C., Shimeld, J. Hutchinson, D., Jackson, R., Chian, D., Lebedeva-Ivanova, N., Oakey, G., Evangelatos, J., Li, Q., Funck, T., Mayer, L., Verhoef, J., and Forbes, S, 2012, Re-evaluating Amerasian Basin tectonics and sedimentation with new geophysical data: , 34th IGC Conference. Brisbane, Australia, August 5-10 2012.
Mosher, D.C., Shimeld, J., Hutchinson, D., Chian, D., Lebedeva-Ivanova, N., Jackson, R., 2012, Canada Basin Revealed: , Arctic Technology Conference. December 3-5, 2012, Houston, TX doi: 10.4043/23797-MS.
Mosher, D.C., Shimeld, John W., and Hutchinson, Deborah R., 2009, 2009 Canada Basin seismic reflection and refraction survey, western Arctic Ocean; CCGS Louis S. St-Laurent expedition report: , Geological Survey of Canada Open File 6343. 235 p. http://geoscan.ess.nrcan.gc.ca/starweb/geoscan/servlet.starweb?path=geoscan/geoscanfastlink_e.web&search1=R=248208.
Shimeld, J., Li, Q., Chian, D., Lebedeva-Ivanova, N., Jackson, R., Mosher, D., and Hutchinson, D., 2015, Seismic velocities within the sedimentary succession of the Canada Basin and southern Alpha-Mendeleev Ridge, Arctic Ocean—Evidence for accelerated porosity reduction?: Geophysical Journal International, v. 204, issue 1, p.1-20, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggv416.
Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
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Gravity meter (wh) | --- | Gravity | |
YSI multiparameter sonde | --- | Conductivity Dissolved Oxygen ORP pH Temperature | |
DGPS | --- | Navigation | |
Knudsen echo sounder 320B/R | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
Sensor - SVP | --- | Sound Velocity | |
SBE 9 CTD | --- | CTD | |
XCTD | --- | CTD | |
Water sampler | --- | Chemistry | |
Visual Mammal ID | --- | Species ID | |
12 kHz | --- | Single Beam | |
Multichannel seismics | --- | Multichannel | |
Seismic refraction | --- | Sonobuoy |