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Field Activity Details for field activity L482NP

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-82-NP

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Dave Piper, Steve Eittreim

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam, Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Imagery: Photo, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Treasure Island, CA

End Port/Location: Honolulu, HI

Start Date: 1982-03-01

End Date: 1982-03-15

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, gravity, underwatercamera, magnetics, bathnav, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Survey of 50x50 sq. Kim. area of low-energy abyssal hills area

Staff: Aaron Dunwald, Barb Blubaugh, Dave Melendrez, Jeff Rupert, Jenny Bick, Jim Basler, Larry Kooker, Mark Yeats, Michael Boyle, Terry Ruff, Henry Chezar

Affiliate Staff:
Bob Goodfellow - Watchstander
Dan Hurlbert - Mechanical Technician
Sara Monteith - Watchstander

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Bob Goodfellow - Watchstander
Dan Hurlbert - Mechanical Technician
Dave Melendrez - Chief Mate
Dave Piper - Chief Scientist
Hank Chezar - Watchstander
Jeff Rupert - Mechanical Technician
Jenny Bick - Navigator
Jim Basler - Navigator
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Mark Yeats - Watchstander
Mike Boyle - Electronics Technician
Sara Monteith - Watchstander
Steve Eittreim - Chief Scientist
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Low-energy abyssal hill areas midway between San Franciso and Hawaii

Boundaries
North: 36.97763 South: 21.22169 West: -157.901 East: -127.43979

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.

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