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Field Activity Details for field activity L576BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-5-76-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Alan Cooper, Mike Marlow

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK, Coast Guard Pier and Dutch Harbor, AK

End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK and Nome, AK

Start Date: 1976-07-26

End Date: 1976-08-25

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: updated start date from microfilm

Staff: Jonathan Childs, Karen Bachmann, Butch Butler, Carrie Carpenter, Jon Erickson, Dave Hogg, Jim Joyce, Graig McHendrie, Terry Ruff, Paula Shryrock, Don Tompkins

Affiliate Staff:
Alan Krill - Watchstander
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Jay Moffit - Watchstander
Jim Hill - Watchstander
Joe Simmons - Electronics Technician
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Keith Wilson - Watchstander
Steve Lankford - Watchstander

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Alan Cooper - Chief Scientist
Alan Krill - Watchstander
Butch Butler - Navigator
Carrie Carpenter - Dafe Curator
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Dave Hogg - Electronics Technician
Don Tompkins - Geophysicist
Graig McHendrie - Navigator
Jack Lee - Electronics Technician
Jay Moffit - Watchstander
Jim Hill - Watchstander
Jim Joyce - Watchstander
Joe Simmons - Electronics Technician
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Jon Childs - Watchstander
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Karen Bachmann - Watchstander
Keith Wilson - Watchstander
Mike Marlow - Chief Scientist
Paula Shryrock - Watchstander
Steve Lankford - Watchstander
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Southern Bering Sea Shelf

Boundaries
North: 64.48352 South: 53.36707 West: 176.724 East: -152.04282

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Childs, J.R., and Cooper, A.K.,, 1979, Marine seismic sonobuoy data from the Bering Sea region: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-371, 4 p.

Childs, J.R., Cooper, A.K., and Parker, A.W., 1979, Sonobuoy studies of Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 60 no. 18, pp. 390–390.

Childs, J.R., Cooper, A.K., and Wright, A.W., 1981, Residual magnetic map of Umnak Plateau region, southeastern Bering Sea: U. S. Geological Survey Geophysical Investigations Map GP-0939, 1 p.

Childs, J.R., Cooper, A.K., Marlow, M.S., and Scholl, D.W.,, 1977, Sonobuoy refraction data from the Bering Sea basin: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 927–928.

Cooper, A.K., Childs, J.R., Marlow, M.S., and Scholl, D.W., 1977, Multichannel seismic reflection data in the Bering Sea basin: , Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs. , pp. 934–934.

Cooper, A.K., Childs, J.R., Scholl, D.W., Marlow, M.S., Gardner, J.V., 1979, Evolution of Umnak Plateau, Bering Sea: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 60 no. 18, pp. 390–390.

Cooper, A.K., Marlow, Michael S., and Childs, Jon R., 1985, Digital shipboard gravity and magnetic data collected in 1976 in the southern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 85-0237, 6 p.

Marlow, M.S., and Cooper, A.K., 1980, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1976 in the southern Bering Sea shelf: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-389, 3 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1980/0389/report.pdf.

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 L576BS 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=L576BS.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Tape list
Dead reckoning data l-5-76-bs.010
Dead reckoning data l-5-76-bs.011_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-76-bs.050
Lines
Survey information
Dead reckoning data l-5-76-bs.011 (Provisional best file)
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Survey information
Raw gradiometer data l-5-76-bs.240
Raw gradiometer data l-5-76-bs.240_011
Edited gradiometer data l-5-76-bs.260_011 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information
Gravity land tie data l-5-76-bs.140
Free Air Anomaly data l-5-76-bs.161
Free Air Anomaly data l-5-76-bs.165
Free Air Anomaly data l-5-76-bs.165_011 (Provisional best file)
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-76-bs.111
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-76-bs.422_011 (Provisional best file)
Seismic FFID/Shot/CDP data l-5-76-bs.410
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-76-bs.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-76-bs.421_011
Survey information
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-76-bs.421
Multichannel data (stack data)
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Edited bathymetry data l-5-76-bs.335
Edited bathymetry data l-5-76-bs.335_011 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Survey information
Digitrack --- Single Beam
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-5-76-bs.000
Survey information

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