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Field Activity Details for field activity F988WG

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AKA: none

Other ID: F-9-88-WG,F-9-88-AA

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

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

Principal Investigator(s): Holly Ryan, Terry Bruns

Affiliate Investigator(s): Nigel Fannin (IOS)

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location: DUTCH HARBOR and OF CRUISE F9-88-WG

Start Date: 1988-08-05

End Date: 1988-08-31

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 10khz, Gloriasidescan, gravity, magnetics, 2channelairgun, expendablebatthermograph, bottomtransponder, GPS, integratednavigation, RhoRho

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Byron Ruppel, Grace Fong, Jim Nicholson, Kaye Kinoshita, Matthew Gilby

Affiliate Staff:
David Heath (IOS) - Mechanical Technician
Jeromy Evan (IOS) - Photographer
John Cannan - Ship Captain
John Davies - Chief Mate
Malcolm Harris (IOS) - Electrical Engineer
Robert Lloyd (IOS) - Navigator
Ross Walker (IOS) - Electrical Engineer

Notes: Geological LOng-Range Inclined Asdic (GLORIA) Associated cruises: F-1-86-GA F-6-89-GA F-7-89-EG F-9-88-WG

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Byron Ruppel (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
David Heath (IOS) - Mechanical Technician
Grace Fong (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Holly Ryan (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Jeromy Evan (IOS) - Photographer
Jim Nicholson (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
John Cannan - Ship Captain
John Davies - Chief Mate
Kaye Kinoshita (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Malcolm Harris (IOS) - Electrical Engineer
Matthew Gilby (USGS Western Region) - Chief Engineer
Nigel Fannin (IOS) - Chief Scientist
Robert Lloyd (IOS) - Navigator
Ross Walker (IOS) - Electrical Engineer
Terry Bruns (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Western Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 57.37269 South: 50.97652 West: -163.1836 East: -148.82865

Platform(s):

photo of Farnella
Farnella

Publications

Bruns, T.R., Carlson, P.R., Stevenson, A.J., Fisher, M.A., Ryan, H.F., Mann, D.M., Dobson, M.R., Huggett, Q.J., Parson, L.M., and Fannin, N.G.T., 1990, GLORIA mosaic of the Gulf of Alaska and the British Columbia margin; deep-sea channels, margin deformation, and the Queen Charlotte Fault: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 74 no. 5, pp. 620–620.

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

FAN F988WG 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=F988WG.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
10khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-9-88-wg.320
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-9-88-wg.320_051
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths f-9-88-wg.320_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Gloriasidescan --- Sidescan
File list
Survey information
Gloria (data on FAD)
Sidescan mosaic
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from digital meter f-9-88-wg.101
Gravity lines start/end control data f-9-88-wg.130
Gravity land tie data f-9-88-wg.140
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-9-88-wg.150
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-9-88-wg.152
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-9-88-wg.152_051
Free Air Anomaly data f-9-88-wg.160
Survey information
landtie
Tape list
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data f-9-88-wg.152_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data f-9-88-wg.201
Edited magnetics data f-9-88-wg.220
Edited magnetics data f-9-88-wg.220_051
Edited magnetics data f-9-88-wg.220_052
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Edited magnetics data f-9-88-wg.221_052 (Provisional best file)
2channelairgun --- Multichannel
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-9-88-wg.410_052 (Provisional best file)
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data f-9-88-wg.410_052_fw
410_052
Survey information
stk.tar data f-9-88-wg.stk.tar (Provisional best file)
Multichannel data (stack data) 2 (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Air gun data
seismic (data on FAD)
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
bottomtransponder --- Transects
Survey information
GPS --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data f-9-88-wg.063
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data f-9-88-wg.051_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data f-9-88-wg.052
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data f-9-88-wg.070
Farnella ABC data f-9-88-wg.082
Lines
Survey information
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Tape list
Integrated navigation (SINS) data f-9-88-wg.051 (Provisional best file)
RhoRho --- Navigation
Loran C data f-9-88-wg.033
Survey information

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