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Field Activity Details for field activity A0111GA

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AKA: none

Other ID: A-01-11-GA

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Marine and Coastal Catastrophic Hazards Project (ZP00C4A)

Principal Investigator(s): Thomas Parsons

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): David Finlayson, Patrick Hart

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To map past tsunamigenic landslides with multibeam bathymetry and subbottom profiling.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Whittier, AK

End Port/Location: Whittier, AK

Start Date: 2011-08-15

End Date: 2011-08-22

Equipment Used: minisparker, navigation, multibeam, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived: To map past tsunamigenic landslides with multibeam bathymetry and subbootom profiling.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: David Finlayson, Patrick Hart, Thomas Parsons

Affiliate Staff:
Peter Haeussler

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
David Finlayson
Pat Hart
Peter Haeussler
Tom Parsons

Location:

Gulf of Alaska: Whittier

Boundaries
North: 60.82734 South: 60.7767 West: -148.716 East: -148.47614

Platform(s):

photo of Alaskan Gyre
Alaskan Gyre

Publications

Portals/Viewers

FAN A0111GA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=A0111GA.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
minisparker --- Sparker
navigation --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data a-01-11-ga.063 ( Provisional best file )
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format a-01-11-ga.zip
multibeam --- Multibeam
sidescansonar --- Sidescan

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