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Field Activity Details for field activity L477NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-77-NC

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: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

End Port/Location: Coos Bay, OR

Start Date: 1977-05-09

End Date: 1977-05-21

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: George Asuncion, Karen Bachmann, Glen Barker, Art Conradi, Henry Cullins, Steve Davenport, Jon Erickson, Chris Gutmacher, Dennis Mann, Cheryl Price, Dave Rubin

Affiliate Staff:
Al Goodman - Watchstander
Alan Long - Watchstander
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Dave Wilson - Watchstander
Gary Younse - Watchstander
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Mary Spilker - Watchstander
W.T. Ruff - Ship Captain

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al Goodman - Watchstander
Alan Long - Watchstander
Art Conradi - Watchstander
Cheryl Price - Watchstander
Chris Gutmacher - Dafe Curator
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Dave McCulloch - Chief Scientist
Dave Rubin - Watchstander
Dave Wilson - Watchstander
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Gary Younse - Watchstander
George Asuncion - Electronics Technician
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Henry Cullins - Watchstander
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Karen Bachmann - Watchstander
Mary Spilker - Watchstander
Steve Davenport - Watchstander
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
W.T. Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 42.73476 South: 37.70722 West: -125.91 East: -122.97494

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

McCulloch, D.S., Mann, D.M., Ryan, H.F., and Sliter, R.W., 1986, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1977 off the Northern California and Oregon coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-0406, 4 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

FAN L477NC 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=L477NC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
dopplersonar --- Navigation
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-4-77-nc.305
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-4-77-nc.305_051 (Provisional best file)
Edited bathymetry data l-4-77-nc.330
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
magnetics --- Magnetics
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gradiometer --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-4-77-nc.200
Raw gradiometer data l-4-77-nc.240
Raw gradiometer data l-4-77-nc.240_051
Edited gradiometer data l-4-77-nc.260
Edited gradiometer data l-4-77-nc.260_051 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-4-77-nc.111
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-4-77-nc.111_051 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data -4-77-nc.420
Edited seismic shot point data -4-77-nc.421
Edited seismic shot point data -4-77-nc.421_051 (Provisional best file)
Scan l-4-77-nc.small.tif
Image l-4-77-nc.thumb.jpg
mcs (data on FAD)
Survey information
Scan l-4-77-nc.full.tif
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-77-nc.051 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-77-nc.051_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-77-nc.051_lines
Lines
Survey information
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-77-nc.050
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Tape list
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-4-77-nc.000
field logs (data on FAD)

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