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Field Activity Details for field activity L378EG

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-3-78-EG

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Terry Bruns

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: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Ketchikan, AK

End Port/Location: Kodiak, AK

Start Date: 1978-06-22

End Date: 1978-07-04

Equipment Used: airgun, 3.5khz, minisparker, gravity, gradiometer, sonobuoy, airgunmonitor, magnetics, 12khz, Digitrack, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, LoranC, RhoRho, radar, transitsatellite, uniboom, 24channel

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Dave Aldridge, George Asuncion, Glen Barker, Ken Bayer, Terry Bruns, Karen Denman, John Dunlavey, Charlie Fitts, Paula Mackrow, Dennis Mann, Terry Ruff, Jeff Rupert, Phyllis Swenson

Affiliate Staff:
Beckie Larsen - Dafe Curator
Dave Wilson - Geologist
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
K. Smith - Chief Engineer
Larry Maxey (Conservation) - Watchstander

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Beckie Larsen - Dafe Curator
Charlie Fitts - Navigator
Dave Aldridge - Watchstander
Dave Wilson - Geologist
Dennis Mann - Chief Watchstander
George Asunsion - Electronics Technician
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Jack Lee - Electronics Technician
Jeff Rupert - Mechanical Technician
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
John Dunlavey - Navigator
K. Smith - Chief Engineer
Karen Denman - Watchstander
Ken Bayer - Geophysicist
Larry Maxey (Conservation) - Watchstander
Paula Mackrow - Navigator
Phyllis Swenson - Watchstander
Terry Bruns - Chief Scientist
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 59.18395 South: 54.6564 West: -147.139 East: -133.89804

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Bruns, T.R., and Carlson, P.R., 1987, Geology and petroleum potential of the southeast Alaska continental margin: In: Scholl, D., Grantz, A., and Vedder, J. (Eds.), Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources Earth Science Series. Geology and resource potential of the continental margin of W. No. America and adjacent ocean basins, Houston, TX, , pp. 269–282, URL: http://archives.datapages.com/data/circ_pac/0007/0269_f.htm.

Bruns, T.R., Mann, D.M., and Sliter, R.W., 1987, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1978 in the eastern Gulf of Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0148, 5 p.

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

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
minisparker --- Sparker
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-3-78-eg.111
Free Air Anomaly data l-3-78-eg.160
Free Air Anomaly data l-3-78-eg.160_050 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
gradiometer --- Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.240
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.240_050
Edited gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.260_050 (Provisional best file)
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
sonobuoy (data on FAD)
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.240
Raw gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.240_050
Survey information
Edited gradiometer data l-3-78-eg.260_050 (Provisional best file)
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
Edited bathymetry data l-3-78-eg.336
Edited bathymetry data l-3-78-eg.335
Edited bathymetry data l-3-78-eg.336_050 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Digitrack --- Single Beam
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Survey information
Tape list
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-3-78-eg.051 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-3-78-eg.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-3-78-eg.051_30min
Lines
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-3-78-eg.050_degree
LoranC --- Navigation
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
radar --- Navigation
Station Information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-3-78-eg.000
uniboom --- Boomer
24channel --- Multichannel
Scan l-3-78-eg.small.tif
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data l-3-78-eg.410_fw
Edited seismic shot point data l-3-78-eg.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-3-78-eg.420_050
seismic (data on FAD)
Scan l-3-78-eg.full.tif
410_051
Image l-3-78-eg.thumb.jpg
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data l-3-78-eg.410_051 (Provisional best file)
Survey information

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