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Field Activity Details for field activity F589PW

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-5-89-PW

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Paul Carlson, Erk Reimnitz

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sampling in Prince William Sound

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Seward, AK

End Port/Location: Kodiak, AK

Start Date: 1989-05-11

End Date: 1989-05-15

Equipment Used: integratednavigation, GPS, RhoRho, 3.5khz, boxcore, gravitycore, Niskenbottle

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Mike Baldwin, Michael Hamer, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Dennis Mann, Rick Morgan

Affiliate Staff:
John Cannon (J. Marr) - Captain
Lee Hussey (J. Marr) - 1st Engineer
Arthur Green (J. Marr) - 2nd Engineer
Bill Wilson (J. Marr) - 1st Mate
Albert Fuller (J. Marr) - 2nd Mate
Alan Thompson (J. Marr) - Bosum
Peter Appleyard (J. Marr) - Ab
Colin Bettison (J. Marr) - Ab
Kenny Coleman (J. Marr) - Ab
Robin Searle (J. Marr) - Electrician
Gordon McFadden (J. Marr) - Cook
Tom Caughie (J. Marr) - 2nd Cook
Tony Zielinski (J. Marr) - Steward

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Paul Carlson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Erk Reimnitz (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Dennis Mann (USGS Western Region) - Chief Watchstander
Larry Kooker (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Tech
Kaye Kinoshita (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Mike Hamer (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Rick Morgan (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
John Cannon (J. Marr) - Captain
Mike Baldwin (J. Marr) - Chief Engineer
Lee Hussey (J. Marr) - 1st Engineer
Arthur Green (J. Marr) - 2nd Engineer
Bill Wilson (J. Marr) - 1st Mate
Albert Fuller (J. Marr) - 2nd Mate
Alan Thompson (J. Marr) - Bosum
Peter Appleyard (J. Marr) - Ab
Colin Bettison (J. Marr) - Ab
Kenny Coleman (J. Marr) - Ab
Robin Searle (J. Marr) - Electrician
Gordon McFadden (J. Marr) - Cook
Tom Caughie (J. Marr) - 2nd Cook
Tony Zielinski (J. Marr) - Steward

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 60.80572 South: 58.79156 West: -151.291 East: -146.94769

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Carlson, P.R., 1991, Sediment of Prince William Sound, beach to deep Fjord floor, a year after the EXXON VALDEZ oil spill, U.S. Geological Surve: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-631, 101 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr91631.

Carlson, P.R., and Reimnitz, E., eds.,, 1990, Bottom sediment along the oil spill trajectory in Prince William Sound and along the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (Chapter A), U.S Geological Surve: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-39, 100 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr9039A.

Carlson, P.R., and Reimnitz, E., eds.,, 1990, Bottom sediment along the oil spill trajectory in Prince William Sound and along the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (Chapter C), U.S Geological Surve: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-39, 100 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr9039C.

Carlson, P.R., 1991, Conclusions and recommendations; 1989 Prince William Sound oil spill, the following year, in Carlson, Paul R., ed., Sediment of Prince William Sound, beach to deep fjord floor, a year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-0631, pp. 99–101.

Carlson, P.R., Kvenvolden, K.A., Hostettler, F.D., Rapp, J.B., Threlkeld, C.N., and Warden, A., 1995, Oil spills, 25 yrs apart, in Prince William Sound, Alaska: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 9–9.

Grabmeier, J.M., 1990, Bottom sediment along oil spill trajectory in Prince William Sound and along Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; Chapter C, Radionuclide tracer and sediment oxygen uptake rates used to identify potential contamination zones of the Alaskan shelf in response to the Exxon Valdez oil spill: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-0039-C, 12 p.

Kvenvolden, K.A., J.B. Rapp, and F.D. Hostettler, 1991, Tracing hydrocarbons from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in beach, shallow-water, and deep-water sediment of Prince William Sound, Alaska, In, P.R. Carlson, Ed., Sediment of Prince William Sound, beach to deep Fjord floor, a year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-631, 6998 p.

Kvenvolden, K.A., Hostettler, F.D., Rapp, J.B., Carlson, P.R., 1993, Hydrocarbons in oil residues on beaches of islands of Prince William Sound, Alaska: Marine Pollution Bulletin, v. 26 no. 1, pp. 24–29, doi: 10.1016/0025-326x(93)90593-9.

Kvenvolden, K.A., and Carlson, Paul E., 1995, Oil spills in Prince William Sound, Alaska, in Carter, L.M.H., ed., Energy and the environment; application of geosciences to decision-making: U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1108, pp. 105–107.

Quinterno, P.J., 1990, Bottom sediment along oil spill trajectory in Prince William Sound and along Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; Chapter E, Preliminary report on benthic foraminifers from Prince William Sound, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 90-0039-E, 23 p.

Quinterno, P.J., and Carkin, Bradley A., 1991, Benthic foraminifers from Prince William Sound, Alaska; one year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in Carlson, Paul R., ed., Sediment of Prince William Sound, beach to deep fjord floor, a year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-0631, pp. 31–68.

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