Field Activity Details for field activity H609AR

AKA: H-6-09-AR, 2009-006-FA, 09006, H0609AR, H-06-09-AR

Other ID: HLY0905

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): Helen Beikman

Affiliate Investigator(s): Debbie Hutchinson, David Mosher

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multibeam and Chirp mapping of the sea floor of potential U.S. extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska.

Vehicle(s): None

Start Port/Location: Barrow, AK

End Port/Location: Barrow, AK

Start Date: 2009-08-07

End Date: 2009-09-16

Equipment Used: dredge

Information to be Derived: Notes/logs;Bathymetry;Sonar;CTD and other measurements to estimate velocity of sound in the water column

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff:

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: FACS ID created from InfoBank website
07/03/2012, update:
Cruise report for Healy 2009 can be found at these two locations -

http://ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Mayer 2009 cruise report
HE0905.pdf
and

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/data/healy/hly0905/HE0905cruisereport.pdf.


All ECS cruises are cataloged with extensive statistics and metadata at this
NGDC ECS portal -

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ecs/cruises.html.


General descriptive material and blogs (click on "Missions" to see list of
cruises conducted with links to more info) are at -

http://continentalshelf.gov.


This Coast Guard site includes outreach type material from the ship -

http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgchealy/aws09/.


08/03/2009, report note:
Cruise is currently devoted 100 % to two-icebreaker work, but
this could be reduced depending on planning to take place in
January. There is also a slight chance that there could be dredging
(possibly using a USGS dredge from MP).
Cruise is currently devoted 100% to two-icebreaker work.
18. Report Date:
11:33 8/3/2009

Location:

Arctic Ocean

Platform(s):

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired