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Field Activity Details for field activity L577WO

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-5-77-WO

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Parke Snavely

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Coos Bay, OR and Coos Bay, OR and Neah Bay, WA

End Port/Location: Coos Bay, OR and Neah Bay, WA and Ketchikan, AK

Start Date: 1977-05-21

End Date: 1977-06-03

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, uniboom, sonobuoy, airgun, airgunmonitor, gravity, Digitrack, bathnav, integratednavigation, LoranC, transitsatellite, 24channel, Burgairgun, gradiometer

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Byron Ruppel, Diane Minasian, Helen Beikman, Howard Gower, Jack Lee, Joe Edwards, Bob Brune, Ron Schmitz

Affiliate Staff:
Alan Niem - Geologist
Dave Wilson - Electronics Technician
Don Tiffin - Geophysicist
F. Jennings - Electronics Technician
Jim Yount - Geologist
P. Parks - Electronics Technician
Paul Twichell - Mechanical Technician
R. Slettene - Geophysicist

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Alan Niem - Geologist
Byron Ruppel - Geophysicist
Dave Wilson - Electronics Technician
Diane Minasian - Navigator
Don Tiffin - Geophysicist
F. Jennings - Electronics Technician
Helen Beikman - Navigator
Howard Gower - Geologist
Jack Lee - Electronics Technician
Jim Yount - Geologist
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
P. Parks - Electronics Technician
Parke Snavely - Chief Scientist
Paul Twichell - Mechanical Technician
R. Slettene - Geophysicist
Bob Brune - Geophysicist
Ron Schmitz - Electronics Technician

Location:

Washington-Oregon

Boundaries
North: 48.71738 South: 42.45093 West: -125.8951 East: -123.46052

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Mann, D.M., and Snavely, P.D., 1984, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1977 in the eastern Pacific Ocean off of the Washington/Oregon coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 84-0005, 3 p.

Snavely, P.D., Jr., Gower, H.D., Tagg, A.R., Lander, D.L., and Novak, R.L., 1978, High-resolution seismic profiles in southern Strait of Georgia, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-1061, 1 p.

Snavely, P.D., Jr., Tiffin, D.L., and Tompkins, D.H., 1980, Seismic reflection profiles across the Queen Charlotte fault zone, Dixon Entrance, Canada-United States: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 80-1063, 1 p.

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 L577WO 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=L577WO.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-77-wo.110
Survey information
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-5-77-wo.110_010 (Provisional best file)
Digitrack --- Single Beam
Survey information
bathnav --- Navigation
Single Beam
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Tape list 2
Satellite data l-5-77-wo.001
Dead reckoning data l-5-77-wo.010 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data l-5-77-wo.010_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-5-77-wo.050
Survey information
field logs (data on FAD)
Tape list
Lines
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-77-wo.420
Survey information
Scan l-5-77-wo.full.tif
Scan l-5-77-wo.small.tif
Image l-5-77-wo.thumb.jpg
MCS (data on FAD)
Edited seismic shot point data l-5-77-wo.420_010 (Provisional best file)
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gradiometer --- Magnetics
Raw gradiometer data l-5-77-wo.240
Raw gradiometer data l-5-77-wo.240_010
Edited gradiometer data l-5-77-wo.260
Edited gradiometer data l-5-77-wo.260_010 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics

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