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Field Activity Details for field activity 2025-609-FA

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AKA: none

Other ID: Gyre 2025 PWS survey

Status: Pending

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

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

Contact(s): Alicia Balster-gee, Jenna Hill, Jared Kluesner, Daniel Brothers

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Seismics: Multichannel

Scientific Purpose/Goals: collect geophysical data in central PWS to image stratigraphy in primary depocenters, including submarine landslide deposits that may have been triggered by large earthquakes

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Santa Cruz

End Port/Location: Anchorage

Start Date: 2025-05-30

End Date: 2025-06-21

Equipment Used: Multichannel, subbottomprofiler

Information to be Derived: seismic stratigraphy, structure, and evidence for mass transport deposition

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes: Vehicles are likely from Alaska Science Center

Location:

Prince William Sound, Alaska

Boundaries
North: 61.07954423 South: 60.00338009 West: -148.81640598 East: -145.14257759

Platform(s):

photo of Alaskan Gyre
Alaskan Gyre

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Multichannel --- Multichannel
subbottomprofiler --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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