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Field Activity Details for field activity L484SP

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-84-SP

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Michael Torresan

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Suva, Fiji

End Port/Location: Port Vila, Vanuatu

Start Date: 1984-05-04

End Date: 1984-05-07

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, airgun, gravity, magnetics, uniboom, airgunmonitor, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, transitsatellite

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Al McClenaghan, Barb Blubaugh, Carol Hirozawa, Chris Poppe, Gerry Anderson, Glen Thrasher, Greg Smith, Jeff Stampfer, John Dobranski, Kevin O'Toole, Robin Frisch, Roy Fields, Shawn Dadisman

Affiliate Staff:
Dean Clark (SEG) - Unspecified Investigator
Rob O'Connor - Watchstander

Notes: GIS tools on best navigation file, l-4-84-sp.071, found cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 1320 kilometers.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Carol Hirozawa - Navigator
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Dean Clark (SEG) - Unspecified Investigator
Gerry Anderson - Unspecified Investigator
Glen Thrasher (NZGS) - Geologist
Greg Smith - Watchstander
Jeff Stampfer - Mechanical Technician
John Dobranski - Chief Engineer
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Mike Torresan - Chief Scientist
Rob O'Connor - Watchstander
Robin Frisch - Navigator
Roy Fields - Electronics Technician
Shawn Dadisman - Watchstander

Location:

Southern Pacific

Boundaries
North: -17.74081 South: -18.76085 West: 168.0146 East: 178.42395

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Greene, H.G., Scholl, D.W., Vedder, J.G., and Wong, F.L., 1988, Oil and gas potential of island arcs in the Southwest Pacific; a new frontier: Circum-Pacific Council for Energy and Mineral Resources, Earth Science Series, v. 10, pp. 671–691.

Greene, H.G., Wong, F.L., Blubaugh, B., Carter, A., Collot, J.Y., Crawford, A., Dadisman, S., Exon, N.F., Fisher, M., Goodfellow, G., Golan-Bac, M., Harrison, W.D., Hirozawa, C.A., Holmes, M., Johnson, D., Macfarlane, A., McKelvey, B., Mertens, T., Petit, C., Reiss, T., Smith, G., Thrasher, G., and Torresan, M., 1986, Hydrocarbon potential of an island arc summit basin, New Hebrides Arc, Southwest Pacific: Offshore Technology Conference Proceedings, v. 18 no. 2, pp. 261–266.

Wong, F.L., Richmond, B.A., Greene, H.G., Dingler, J.R., Hein, J.R., Kvenvolden, K.A., Marlow, M.S., Morton, J.L., Rubin, D.M., Scholl, D.W., and Vedder, J.G., 1991, SOPAC; a decade of research on mineral and hydrocarbon resources in the South Pacific: In: Good, E.E., Slack, J.F., and Kotra, R.K. (Eds.), USGS research on mineral resources, 1991; program and abstracts. U. S. Geological Survey Circular 1062, pp. 78–79.

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