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Field Activity Details for field activity L2B78SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-2B-78-SC,L2B78NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Dave McCulloch

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Port Hueneme, CA

End Port/Location: Oakland Dry Dock, CA

Start Date: 1978-05-25

End Date: 1978-05-30

Equipment Used: airgun, 12khz, 3.5khz, uniboom, Burgairgun, gravity, gradiometer, integratednavigation, transitsatellite, 24channel, sonobuoy

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: George Asuncion, Gary Boucher, Bob Brune, Joe Edwards, Terry Kelley, Dennis Mann, Graig McHendrie, Don Reed, Dave Rubin, Gordon Tanner, Jed Tooke, Bob Wilson

Affiliate Staff:
Jeff Ruppert - Mechanical Technician
Mike Reikley - Watchstander
Paul Kolling - Watchstander

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bob Brune - Geophysicist
Bob Wilson - Mechanical Technician
Dave McCulloch - Chief Scientist
Dave Rubin - Geologist
Dennis Mann - Navigator
Don Reed - Watchstander
Gary Boucher - Geophysicist
George Asuncion - Electronics Technician
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Graig McHendrie - Geophysicist
Jed Tooke - Navigator
Jeff Ruppert - Mechanical Technician
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Mike Reikley - Watchstander
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 36.36059 South: 34.13414 West: -122.031 East: -119.2357

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

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 L2B78SC 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=L2B78SC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-2b-78-sc.305_010 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-2b-78-sc.301
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-2b-78-sc.305
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information
gradiometer --- Magnetics
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-2b-78-sc.200
Raw magnetics data l-2b-78-sc.200_010
Edited magnetics data l-2b-78-sc.220
Edited magnetics data l-2b-78-sc.220_010 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data l-2b-78-sc.010 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data l-2b-78-sc.010_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-2b-78-sc.050
Tape list
Lines
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-2b-78-sc.000
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
seismic (data on FAD)
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data l-2b-78-sc.410_010 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information

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