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Field Activity Details for field activity 2020-626-FA

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AKA: MGL2002

Other ID: none

Status: Cancelled

Organization(s): National Science Foundation

Funding Program(s): Coastal and marine earthquake, tsunami, and landslide active margin field studies (ZP00EQV)

Principal Investigator(s): Maureen Walton

Affiliate Investigator(s): Lindsay Worthington (University of New Mexico) Emily Roland (University of Washington) Mladen Nedimovic (Dalhousie University)

Information Specialist(s): Maureen Walton

Data Type(s): Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To record acoustic and seismicity data along the Queen Charlotte transform fault in southeastern Alaska.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Newport, OR

End Port/Location: Ketchikan, AK

Start Date: 2020-08-14

End Date: 2020-08-24

Equipment Used: Other, seismograph

Information to be Derived: Seismicity, acoustic recordings

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Survey was cancelled due to Covid-19 infection among ship crew.

Staff: Maureen Walton

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Survey, staffing, and equipment funded by NSF; travel for M. Walton funded partly by USGS. Data will be archived and managed by NSF facilities.

Location:

Offshore southeastern Alaska, United States

Boundaries
North: 56.1 South: 55.1 West: -135.6 East: -134.5

Platform(s):

photo of Marcus G. Langseth
Marcus G. Langseth

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Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Other --- --- ---
seismograph --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer

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