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Field Activity Details for field activity K177AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: K-1-77-AR

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Peter Barnes

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Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Dissolved Oxygen, Environmental Data: Fluorescence, Environmental Data: Nitrate, Environmental Data: pH, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

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Start Date: 1977-07-15

End Date: 1977-08-25

Equipment Used: sidescansonar, uniboom, airgun, transmissometer, minisparker, temperature, tempsalinometer, watersamples, vibratingcore, currentmeter, anchorsamplegrab, miniranger, bathymetry

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Staff information imported from InfoBank
Peter Barnes (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Arctic

Boundaries
North: 71.15 South: 70.47955 West: -154.25 East: -151.25

Platform(s):


Karluk

Publications

Barnes, P., Reimnitz, E., Toimil, L., Maurer, D., and McDowell, D., 1979, Core Descriptions and Preliminary Observations of Vibracores from the Alaskan Beaufort Sea Shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-351, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr79351.

Rearic, D.M., 1974, Ice Gouge Correlation Project: U. S. Geological Survey , https://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/k/k279ar/meta/IceGougeCorrelation.pdf.

Steele, W.C., Degnan, C.H., Deeter, G.B., and Riordan, J.A., 1989, Description of marine geophysical data collected by the U.S. Geological Survey and how to obtain it: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 89-167, 26 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr89167.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
uniboom --- Boomer
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
transmissometer --- Turbidity
minisparker --- Sparker
temperature --- Temperature
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
watersamples --- Conductivity
CTD
Dissolved Oxygen
Fluorescence
Nitrate
pH
Temperature
Turbidity
Wave
vibratingcore --- Geology
Station Information
currentmeter --- Current
anchorsamplegrab --- Geology
miniranger --- Navigation
Edited ranging navigation data with Lat/Long k-1-77-ar.690
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Lat/Long/UTM/State Plane data k-1-77-ar.650 (Provisional best file)
Raw Miniranger data k-1-77-ar.620
Miniranger Operations Table k-1-77-ar.630
Miniranger Land Table in Lat/Long k-1-77-ar.640
bathymetry --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data k-1-77-ar.305
logs (data on FAD)
Raw depth (bathymetry) data k-1-77-ar.305_650 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy

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