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Field Activity Details for field activity L478BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-78-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Fisher

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK and Pribilof Islands, AK and Kodiak, AK and Pribilof Islands, AK

End Port/Location: Pribilof Islands, AK and Nome, AK and Pribilof Islands, AK and Nome, AK

Start Date: 1978-07-08

End Date: 1978-09-12

Equipment Used: sonobuoy, 12khz, minisparker, 3.5khz, airgun, Burgairgun, chaindredge, gravity, gradiometer, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, multichannel

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: InfoBank had this incorrectly identified as Cooper/Marlow; it was Mike Fisher's MCS

Staff: Michael Fisher, Mark Holmes, Kaye Kinoshita, Jeff Rupert, Gordon Tanner

Affiliate Staff:
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
Jim Mackrow - Chief Mate
Shannon Sinnock - Watchstander
Loreto Smith - Chief Engineer

Notes: InfoBank incorrectly lists some metadata from L-5-78-BS
Corrected in Compass 7/18/2016
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Dave Aldridge Watchstander
George Asuncion Electronics Technician
John Dunlavey Navigator
Joe Edwards Mechanical Technician
Mike Fisher Chief Scientist
Dick Foland Navigator
Alice Fuller Watchstander
Richard Heagney Ship Captain
Mark Holmes Geophysicist
Kaye Kinoshita Watchstander
Darrell Klingman Watchstander
Jim Mackrow Chief Mate
Paula Mackrow Navigator
Pat McClellan Watchstander
Bill Patton Geologist
Jeff Rupert Mechanical Technician
K. Smith Chief Engineer
Gordon Tanner Electronics Technician
A-Lan Von Hornlein Watchstander

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 64.43768 South: 52.55072 West: -179.181 East: -152.0692

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Mann, D.M., and Fisher, M.A., 1984, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1978 in Norton Sound and the eastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-4, 1 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr844.

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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
12khz --- Single Beam
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy (nav dates 8/6/1978 - 8/23/1978)
Edited bathymetry data l-5-78-bs.335_010 (corrected Provisional best file)
minisparker --- Sparker
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Edited bathymetry data l-5-78-bs.335_010 (provisional best)
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
chaindredge --- Geology
gravity --- Gravity
Free Air Anomaly data l-5-78-bs.160_010 (provisional best)
gradiometer --- Magnetics
dopplersonar --- Navigation
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data l-5-78-bs.010 (provisional best)
RhoRho --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
multichannel --- Multichannel
MCS (data on FAD)

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