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Field Activity Details for field activity F387AA

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-3-87-AA

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) (MU116)

Principal Investigator(s): Bob Bohannon, Max Dobson, Brian Edwards

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK

Start Date: 1987-08-30

End Date: 1987-09-25

Equipment Used: 10khz, magnetics, gravity, 2channelairgun, airgunmonitor, Gloriasidescan, expendablebatthermograph, integratednavigation, 3.5khz, tempsalinometer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Mike Baldwin, Joseph Coddington, Grace Fong, John Gann, Colin Jacobs, Larry Kooker, Derek Lewis, Holly Ryan, Steve Whittle

Affiliate Staff:
Albert Fuller - Chief Mate
Mike Patterson - Ship Captain
John Cherriman - IOS
Jon Campbell - IOS

Notes: Associated cruises in Alaska F-2-87-AA F-3-87-AA F-7-88-AA F-8-88-AA

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Albert Fuller - Chief Mate
Bob Bohannon (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Brian Edwards (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Colin Jacobs (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Derek Lewis (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Grace Fong (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Holly Ryan (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
John Gann (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Joseph Coddington (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Larry Kooker (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Max Dobson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Mike Baldwin (USGS Western Region) - Chief Engineer
Mike Patterson - Ship Captain
Steve Whittle (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
John Cherriman - IOS
Jon Campbell - IOS

Location:

West-central Aleutian Trench

Boundaries
North: 52.3559 South: 48.05767804 West: 169.394 East: 179.88931562

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Bohannon, R.G., Dobson, Max R., Edwards, Brian D., and Jacobs, Colin L., 1987, Tectonics of North Pacific Ocean basin; western Aleutian Island region: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 68 no. 44, pp. 1486–1486.

Bohannon, R.G., Vallier, Tracy L., and Karl, Herman A., 1988, Geology of the Pacific and Kula plates south of the western Aleutian Arc; evidence from GLORIA, seismic-reflection, gravity and magnetic data: , 128 p.

Carlson, P.R., Cooper, A.K., Gardner, J.V., Hunter, R.E., Karl, H.A., Marlow, M.S., Stevenson, A.J., Huggett, Q., Kenyon, N.H., Parson, L.M., Bohannon, R.G., Edwards, B.D., Vallier, T.L., Dobson, M.F., and Masson, D.G., 1988, GLORIA sonographic mosaics of the Bering Sea and the western Aleutian Arc and adjacent North Pacific, in Carter, Lorna M., ed., USGS research on energy resources, 1988; program and abstracts: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1025, pp. 14–15, https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/cir1025.

Edwards, B.D., Bohannon, Robert G., Dobson, M.R., and Campbell, J.M., 1988, Cruise report for Cruise F3-87-AA, GLORIA survey of the west-central Aleutian Arc and adjacent North Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 88-0227, 9 p.

Paskevich, V.F., Wong, F.L., O'Malley, J.J., Stevenson, A.J., and Gutmacher, C.E., 2011, GLORIA sidescan-sonar imagery for parts of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone and adjacent areas: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2010-1332, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2010/1332/.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
10khz --- Single Beam
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-3-87-aa.320_080 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-3-87-aa.320
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-3-87-aa.320_080_eotcssp
magnetics --- Magnetics
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Edited magnetics data f-3-87-aa.220_080
Survey information
Edited magnetics data f-3-87-aa.221_080 (Provisional best file)
Edited magnetics data f-3-87-aa.220
gravity --- Gravity
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-3-87-aa.150
Raw gravity data from digital meter f-3-87-aa.101
Survey information
Gravity lines start/end control data f-3-87-aa.131
Gravity land tie data f-3-87-aa.140
Free Air Anomaly data f-3-87-aa.160
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-3-87-aa.150_080 (Provisional best file)
Tape list
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
2channelairgun --- Multichannel
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-3-87-aa.410_080 (Provisional best file)
Air gun data
seismic (data on FAD)
Survey information
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-3-87-aa.410_080old
Multichannel data (srt data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-3-87-aa.410
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
Gloriasidescan --- Sidescan
Survey information
Gloria (data on FAD)
File list
Sidescan mosaic
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-3-87-aa.070
Farnella ABC data f-3-87-aa.080 (Provisional best file)
Farnella ABC data f-3-87-aa.080_degree
Lines
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-3-87-aa.072
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature

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