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Field Activity Details for field activity 2024-010-FA

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Other ID: Skilak Lake site response deployment

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Other (Other)

Principal Investigator(s): Nathaniel Miller

Affiliate Investigator(s): Peter Haeussler (USGS); Rob Witter (USGS)

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Data Type(s): Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Measure site response of Skilak Lake basin for calibration of lacustrine paleoseismic record.

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Start Date: 2024-04-29

End Date: 2025-06-13

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Information to be Derived: lake-bottom and land broadband seismograph data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Deployed 2 OBS in bottom of Lake Skilak and 8 seismometers around the lake. Instruments remained deployed for ~1 year.

Staff: Brian Andrews

Affiliate Staff:
Tim Kane (WHOI); Hannah Brewer (WHOI)

Notes: Funding project: GX24GY00ET2SZ00

Location:

Lake Skilak, Alaska

Boundaries
North: 60.59181441 South: 60.28068535 West: -150.64315796 East: -149.94140625

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