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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-628-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): 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

Affiliate Investigator(s): Peter Haeussler (USGS ASC)

Information Specialist(s): Peter Dartnell

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Multibeam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: map the remainder of the Queen Charlotte Fault between the international border and the southernmost extend of existing USGS data coverage

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Ketchikan, AK

End Port/Location: Sitka, AK

Start Date: 2018-04-15

End Date: 2018-04-29

Equipment Used: multibeam, POS MV

Information to be Derived: bathy maps

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 2018-628-FA_Original_from_NOAA data submitted to FAD from Pete Dartnell, 10/3/2018.

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Survey is on NOAA Ship Fairweather

Location:

SE AK continental slope near Dahl Island

Boundaries
North: 58.35986923 South: 54.10613434 West: -139.31640625 East: -129.5703125

Platform(s):

photo of Fairweather
Fairweather

Publications

Andrews, B.D., Brothers, D.S., Dartnell, P., Barrie, J.V., Haeussler, P.J., Green, K.M., Greene, H.G., Miller, N.C., Kluesner, J.W., and ten Brink, U.S., 2022, Systematic mapping of the ocean-continent transform plate boundary of the Queen Charlotte fault system, southeastern Alaska and western British Columbia—A preliminary bathymetric terrain model: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2022–1085, 2 sheets, 7-p. pamphlet, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20221085.

Andrews, B.D., Brothers, D.S., Dartnell, P., and Barrie, J.V., 2022, A bathymetric terrain model of multibeam sonar data collected between 2005 and 2018 along the Queen Charlotte Fault System in the Eastern Gulf of Alaska from Cross Sound, Alaska to Queen Charlotte Sound, Canada: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9YGDHIQ.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
multibeam --- Multibeam
POS MV --- Navigation

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