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Field Activity Details for field activity L178SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-1-78-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Mark Holmes

Affiliate Investigator(s): Thane McCulloh

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Hueneme, CA

End Port/Location: Port Hueneme, CA

Start Date: 1978-05-02

End Date: 1978-05-11

Equipment Used: airgun, gravity, 3.5khz, 12khz, uniboom, gradiometer, expendablebatthermograph, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, minisparker, 24channel, airgunmonitor, bottomseismometer, sonobuoy, tempsalinometer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Physical data holdings microfilm scan of seismic; barcode 197847 (was erroneously labeled L-2A-78-SC)

Staff: George Asuncion, Tom Atwood, Art Conradi, Jim Crouch, Jon Erickson, Terry Kelley, Dennis Mann, Terry Ruff, Jeff Rupert, Byron Ruppel, Ron Schmitz

Affiliate Staff:
Jan Johnson - Watchstander
Barry Keller - Watchstander
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Alan Long - Watchstander
Bill Lose - Chief Engineer
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
Chuck Meeder - Watchstander
Lindsay Quackenbusch - Watchstander
Nardia Sasnett - Navigator
Jack Thompson - Chief Engineer

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
George Asuncion - Electronics Technician
Tom Atwood - Watchstander
Art Conradi - Navigator
Jim Crouch - Watchstander
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Mark Holmes - Chief Scientist
Jan Johnson - Watchstander
Barry Keller - Watchstander
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Alan Long - Watchstander
Bill Lose - Chief Engineer
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Thane McCulloh - Chief Scientist
Chuck Meeder - Watchstander
Lindsay Quackenbusch - Watchstander
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain
Jeff Rupert - Mechanical Technician
Byron Ruppel - Navigator
Nardia Sasnett - Navigator
Ron Schmitz - Electronics Technician
Jack Thompson - Chief Engineer

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.3116 South: 32.0066 West: -121.14 East: -117.8522

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Mann, D.M., McCulloh, T.H., and Crouch, J.K., 1980, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1978 in the eastern Pacific Ocean off the California coast south of Point Conception: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-0946, 3 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1980/0946/.

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.

Portals/Viewers

FAN L178SC 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=L178SC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-1-78-sc.111
Free Air Anomaly data l-1-78-sc.161
Free Air Anomaly data l-1-78-sc.161_011 (Provisional best file)
Free Air Anomaly data l-1-78-sc.161_012
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-1-78-sc.301
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-1-78-sc.301_011 (Provisional best file)
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-1-78-sc.301_012
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
gradiometer --- Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data l-1-78-sc.240
Raw gradiometer data l-1-78-sc.240_012
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Survey information
Edited gradiometer data l-1-78-sc.260_011 (Provisional best file)
Raw gradiometer data l-1-78-sc.240_011
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
Station Information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Lines
Dead reckoning data l-1-78-sc.011 (Provisional best file)
Tape list
Survey information
Dead reckoning data l-1-78-sc.010
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-1-78-sc.000
Survey information
minisparker --- Sparker
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-1-78-sc.420_011 (Provisional best file)
Scan l-1-78-sc.full.tif
Scan l-1-78-sc.small.gif
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
MCS (data on FAD)
Survey information
Edited seismic shot point dataf l-1-78-sc.420
Scan l-1-78-sc.full.gif
Scan l-1-78-sc.small.tif
Scan l-1-78-sc.thumb.gif
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
bottomseismometer --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer
Station Information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature

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