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Field Activity Details for field activity L283NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-2-83-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): David Scholl, Gary Greene

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sonar: Single Beam, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Multichannel, Sampling: Geology, Electro-Magnetic: Gravity

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Redwood City, CA and Capitola, CA

End Port/Location: Capitola, CA and Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1983-08-09

End Date: 1983-08-13

Equipment Used: 12khz, 3.5khz, courserecorder, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, uniboom, airgun, sonobuoy, 24channel, chaindredge, gravity

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jonathan Childs, Aaron Dunwald, Al McClenaghan, Andy Stevenson, Art Grantz, Bill Baldwin, Carolyn Degnan, Claudia Alexander, Dave Hogg, Dennis Mann, Greg Smith, Holly Ryan, Jeff Cole, Jeff Stampfer, Joe Edwards, Kaye Kinoshita, Kevin O'Toole, Paul Wenberg, Rick Viall, Terry Kelley

Affiliate Staff:
Pat Moore - Chief Mate
Sheila Greene - Unspecified Investigator
Tom Mertens - Unspecified Investigator

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Andy Stevenson - Watchstander
Art Grantz - Geologist
Bill Baldwin - Electronics Technician
Carolyn Degnan - Navigator
Claudia Alexander - Navigator
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Dave Scholl - Chief Scientist
Dennis Mann - Chief Seismic Watchstander
Gary Greene - Chief Scientist
Greg Smith - Watchstander
Holly Ryan - Watchstander
Jeff Cole - Watchstander
Jeff Stampfer - Mechanical Technician
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Jon Childs - Watchstander
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Pat Moore - Chief Mate
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Rick Viall - Electronics Technician
Sheila Greene - Unspecified Investigator
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Tom Mertens - Unspecified Investigator

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 37.83448 South: 36.49392 West: -122.7707 East: -121.8188

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Field, M.E., and Kvenvolden, Keith A., 1985, Gas hydrates on the Northern California continental margin: Geology, v. 13 no. 7, pp. 517–520.

Mann, D.M., Greene, G.H., 1991, Multichannel seismic-reflection data collected in 1983 off Central California, Monterey Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-253, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr91253.

Portals/Viewers

FAN L283NC 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=L283NC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
courserecorder --- Navigation
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-2-83-nc.053 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-2-83-nc.052
Lines
Tape list
Tape list 2
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-2-83-nc.053_degree
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
seismic (data on FAD)
Survey information
Edited seismic shot point data l-2-83-nc.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-2-83-nc.421
Edited seismic shot point data l-2-83-nc.421_053 (Provisional best file)
Scan l-2-83-nc.full.1.tif
Scan l-2-83-nc.small.1.tif
chaindredge --- Geology
Station Information
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information

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