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Field Activity Details for field activity L486NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-4-86-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Dave Cacchione, Dave Drake

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Eureka, CA

End Port/Location: Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1986-08-21

End Date: 1986-09-05

Equipment Used: 12khz, 3.5khz, bathnav, bottomtransponder, GPS, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, boxcore, gravitycore, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision, watergun, magnetics, sidescansonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Michael Boyle, John Chin, Jon Erickson, Grace Fong, John Gann, Eileen Hemphill, Dave Hogg, Robert Kayen, Kaye Kinoshita, Bill Lafleur, Homa Lee, Al McClenaghan, Corky Ozanne, Chris Poppe, George Tate, Henry Chezar

Affiliate Staff:
Mark Kersotes - Watchstander
Radar Per Gato - Dafe Curator

Notes: C.O.W. geologic studies

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Bill Lafleur - Chief Engineer
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Corky Ozanne - Mechanical Technician
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Dave Cacchione - Chief Scientist
Dave Drake - Chief Scientist
Eileen Hemphill (Navigator) - Haley
George Tate - Geologist
Grace Fong - Watchstander
Hank Chezar - Geologist
Homa Lee - Geologist
John Chin - Geologist
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
John Gann - Navigator
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Mark Kersotes - Watchstander
Mike Boyle - Electronics Technician
Radar Per Gato - Dafe Curator
Rob Kayen - Geologist

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 46.62119 South: 37.76028 West: -126.605 East: -122.3597

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Chezar, H., and Newman, I., 2006, Overview: DVD-video disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1101, https://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1101/.

Chezar, H., and Newman, Ivy, 2004, DVD-Video Disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1136.

Chezar, H., and Newman, Ivy, 2004, DVD-Video Disc set of seafloor transects during USGS research cruises in the Pacific Ocean: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1137.

Luepke, G., 1995, Heavy minerals from cores in a deep-sea channel off Cape Mendocino, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-0587, 7 p.

Reid, J.A., Reid, J.M., Jenkins, C.J., Zimmermann, M., Williams, S.J., and Field, M.E., 2006, usSEABED: Pacific coast (California, Oregon, Washington) offshore surficial-sediment data release: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 182, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/182/.

Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H, Dadisman, S.V., and Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey Selected Single-Beam Bathymetry Datasets, 1969â2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/.

Portals/Viewers

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-4-86-nc.301
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-4-86-nc.300
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths l-4-86-nc.320
Edited bathymetry data with corrected depths l-4-86-nc.320_070 (Provisional best file)
Edited bathymetry data l-4-86-nc.330
Survey information
L-4-86-NC_154065;bathy12 (scanned microfilm)
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
L-4-86-NC_154065;bathy3_5 (scanned microfilm)
bathnav --- Navigation
Single Beam
bottomtransponder --- Transects
Survey information
GPS --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Survey information
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Position update data l-4-86-nc.020
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-86-nc.050
Tape list
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-4-86-nc.052
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-4-86-nc.070 (Provisional best file)
Eotvos/course/speed/distance data l-4-86-nc.070_degree
Lines
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
Loran C data l-4-86-nc.030
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-4-86-nc.000
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
14bx
15bx
1bx
20bx
21bx
16bx
17bx
18bx
19bx
5bx
6bx
7bx
8bx
2bx
3bx
4bx
9bx
Station Information
11bx
12bx
13bx
10bx
gravitycore --- Geology
2g
3g
4g
10g
13g
1g
8g
9g
Station Information
5g
6g
7g
foram slides (data in holdings)
underwatercamera --- Photo
underwatertelevision --- Video
watergun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
L-4-86-NC_154065;watergun (scanned microfilm)
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data l-4-86-nc.410_lines (Provisional best file)
magnetics --- Magnetics
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
L-4-86-NC_154065;sidescan (scanned microfilm)

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