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Field Activity Details for field activity L479SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-79-SC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jim Crouch

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Diego, CA, Broadway Pier and San Diego, CA, Broadway Pier

End Port/Location: La Jolla, CA, SCRIPPS Pier and La Jolla, CA, SCRIPPS Pier

Start Date: 1979-11-15

End Date: 1979-11-21

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Roberto Anima, Dave Aldridge, Dave Hogg, Dennis Mann, George Asuncion, Glen Barker, Jeff Rupert, Jim Saltzgaber, Kaye Kinoshita, Ken Creager, Larry Kooker, Mark Holmes, Rich Garlow, Sue Demarinis, Terry Ruff

Affiliate Staff:
Dave Jones - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Gary Younse - Watchstander

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Roberto Anima - Watchstander
Dave Aldridge - Watchstander
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Dave Jones - Watchstander
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Gary Younse - Watchstander
George Asuncion - Electronics Technician
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Jeff Rupert - Mechanical Technician
Jim Crouch - Chief Scientist
Jim Saltzgaber - Chief Engineer
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Ken Creager - Watchstander
Larry Kooker - Mechanical Technician
Mark Holmes - Geologist
Rich Garlow - Navigator
Sue Demarinis - Navigator
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Southern California

Boundaries
North: 33.6128 South: 31.2113 West: -120.0724 East: -117.2102

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Mann, D.M., and Crouch, J.K., 1983, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1979 in the eastern Pacific Ocean of the California coast, south of Pt. Conception: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 83-0593, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1983/0593/.

Portals/Viewers

FAN L479SC 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=L479SC.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
transitsatellite --- Navigation
L-4-79-SC_197925_nav_printout (scanned microfilm)
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Survey information
seismic (data on FAD)
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Edited seismic shot point data l-4-79-sc.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-4-79-sc.420_011 (Provisional best file)
Image l-4-79-sc.thumb.jpg
Scan l-4-79-sc.full.tif
Scan l-4-79-sc.small.tif
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-4-79-sc.111
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-4-79-sc.111_011 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data l-4-79-sc.011 (Provisional best file)
Lines
Tape list
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information

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