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Field Activity Details for field activity L483BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-83-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Fisher

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: ?

Start Date: 1983-09-16

End Date: 1983-10-02

Equipment Used: courserecorder, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, transitsatellite, uniboom, airgun, 24channel, magnetics, gravity, 12khz, 3.5khz, RhoRho

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Aaron Dunwald, Al McClenaghan, Dennis Mann, Eric Dasch, Holly Ryan, Jim Vaughan, Jon Erickson, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Kooker, Paul Wenberg, Robin Bouse, Sue Hunt

Affiliate Staff:
Beckie Larsen - Watchstander
Don Jessup - Watchstander
Pat Moore - Chief Mate
Ralph Tolson - Watchstander

Notes: Based on data in best navigation file, l-4-83-bs.070, cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 4610 kilometers.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Beckie Larsen - Watchstander
Dennis Mann - Chief Seismic Watchstander
Don Jessup - Watchstander
Eric Dasch - Watchstander
Holly Ryan - Watchstander
Jim Vaughan - Electronics Technician
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Larry Kooker - Electronics Technician
Mike Fisher - Chief Scientist
Pat Moore - Chief Mate
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Ralph Tolson - Watchstander
Robin Bouse - Navigator
Sue Hunt - Navigator

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 64.56765 South: 53.89226 West: -177.0369 East: -160.91098

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Carlson, P.R., Karl, H.A., Edwards, B.D., Gardner, J.V., and Hall, R., 1993, Mass movement related to large submarine canyons along the Beringian margin, Alaska, in Schwab, W.C., Lee, H.J., Twichell, D.C., eds., Submarine landslides; selected studies in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone: U. S. Geological Survey Bulletin 2002, pp. 104–116.

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 L483BS 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=L483BS.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
courserecorder --- Navigation
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-4-83-bs.070 (Provisional best file)
Lines
Survey information
Tape list
Position update data l-4-83-bs.020
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-83-bs.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-83-bs.051
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-4-83-bs.070_degree
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Raw seismic shot point data l-4-83-bs.400
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
SCAG (data on FAD)
shot (data on FAD)
stack (data on FAD)
Raw seismic shot point data l-4-83-bs.400_070 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-4-83-bs.200
Raw magnetics data l-4-83-bs.200_070
Edited magnetics data l-4-83-bs.220_070 (Provisional best file)
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-4-83-bs.112
Gravity lines start/end control data l-4-83-bs.130
Free Air Anomaly data l-4-83-bs.161
Free Air Anomaly data l-4-83-bs.161_070 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
landtie
12khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data l-4-83-bs.330
Edited bathymetry data l-4-83-bs.330_070 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Tape list
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
Loran C data l-4-83-bs.031

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