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Field Activity Details for field activity H208AR

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AKA: 2008-009-FA

Other ID: HLY0806, H-02-08-AR, H-2-08-AR

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Law of the Sea - Outer Limits of the US continental Margins ()

Principal Investigator(s): Jonathan Childs

Affiliate Investigator(s): Debbie Hutchinson (USGS, Woods Hole)

Information Specialist(s): Jonathan Childs

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Environmental Data: CTD, Sampling: Biology, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Collect bathymetry and gravity data as well as break ice for a second ship as part of delimiting the boundary of the U.S. extended continental shelf in the Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Barrow, AK

End Port/Location: Barrow, AK

Start Date: 2008-09-05

End Date: 2008-10-01

Equipment Used: gravity, CTD, planktonnet, 512 chirp-source, Knudsen Chirp 3200, multibeam

Information to be Derived: Multibeam Bathymetry + Gravity (electronic, DVD)

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: There were 5146 km of tracklines (multibeam + subbottom + gravity). Total area imaged was 39,311 km2 with the SeaBeam 2112. 11 stations were occupied for CTD and 10 stations for phytoplankton analysis.

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Notes: FAN renamed H208AR 10/18/2018
also exists as WH 2008-009-FA
FAN created for data on FAD 9/21/2017
Chirp system used;exact model not specified

Location:

Arctic Ocean

Boundaries
North: 79.70986597 South: 67.74998975 West: -142.40078866 East: -118.41641366

Platform(s):

photo of Healy
Healy

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
gravity --- Gravity
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
planktonnet --- Biology
512 chirp-source --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Knudsen Chirp 3200 --- Sub Bottom Profiler
multibeam --- Multibeam

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