AKA: none
Other ID: D-1-85-AR
Status: Completed
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Principal Investigator(s): Peter Barnes, Larry Phillips
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Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To describe the geologic environment of the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas and make recommendations about drilling operations in lease sale areas. To supplement knowledge of ice gouging, current scour and slope stability processes at high latitudes.
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Start Date: 1985-09-05
End Date: 1985-10-06
Equipment Used: 3.5khz, sidescansonar, pipedredge, transitsatellite, gravitycore, boxcore, Alpinecore, underwatertelevision, temperature, dredge, uniboom, seismic
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings
Staff: Steven Clark, Mitch Colgan, Jon Erickson, Robert Kayen, Larry Kooker, Doug Rearic, George Redden, Thomas Reiss, Jeff Stampfer
Affiliate Staff:
Jim Robb (USGS Woods Hole) - Geologist
Joyce Miley - Geologic Field Assistant
Jared Morrow - Geologic Field Assistant
Peter Ramirez - Geologist
Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Peter Barnes (Geologist, USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Larry Phillips (Geologist, USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Jim Robb (USGS Woods Hole) - Geologist
Larry Kooker (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Jon Erickson (USGS Western Region) - Lead Marine Technician
Jeff Stampfer - Marine Technician
Steven Clark - Physical Science Technician
Mitch Colgan (geologist) - Bio
Sarah Griscom (USGS Woods Hole) - Geologic Field Assistant
Rob Kayen (USGS Western Region) - Engineering Geologist
Joyce Miley - Geologic Field Assistant
Jared Morrow - Geologic Field Assistant
Doug Rearic - Geologist
George Redden - Geochemist
Peter Ramirez - Geologist
Tom Reiss (USGS Western Region) - Physical Science Technician
Location:
Chukchi Sea
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North: 72.03983 | South: 69.64833 | West: -168.628 | East: -152.96717 |
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Discoverer |
Luepke, G., and Escowitz, Edward C.,, 1989, Grain-size, heavy-mineral, and geochemical analyses of sediments from the Chukchi Sea, Alaska: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1896, 12 p.
Miley, J.M., and Barnes, P.W., eds., 1986, 1985 Field Studies, Beaufort and Chukchi Seas, Conducted from NOAA Ship Discoverer: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-202.