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Field Activity Details for field activity L676AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-6-76-AR,LEE676AR

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Art Grantz

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: Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1976-08-27

End Date: 1976-09-03

Equipment Used: gravity, uniboom, Digitrack, 3.5khz, 24channel, sparker, sonobuoy, bottomseismometer, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, LoranC, transitsatellite, airgun, Burgsparker, magnetics, Burgairgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Dave Aldridge, Karen Bachmann, Gary Boucher, Chris Carlson, Carrie Carpenter, Ralph Curtiss, Steve Davenport, Joe Edwards, Steve Eittreim, Byron Ruppel

Affiliate Staff:
Al Long - Geophysicist
Andy Montez - Mechanical Technician
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Jim Krogstad (ABL) - Watchstander
Paul Twitchell - Mechanical Technician
Sven Keinanen - Ship Captain
Terry Whitney - Watchstander
Tom Thornton - Electronics Technician

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al Long - Geophysicist
Andy Montez - Mechanical Technician
Art Grantz - Chief Scientist
Byron Ruppel - Navigator
Carrie Carpenter - Dafe Curator
Chris Carlson - Watchstander
Curtis Thompson - Chief Mate
Dave Aldridge - Watchstander
Gary Boucher - Geophysicist
Jim Krogstad (ABL) - Watchstander
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Karen Bachmann - Watchstander
Paul Twitchell - Mechanical Technician
Ralph Curtiss - Chief Engineer
Steve Davenport - Watchstander
Steve Eittreim - Geophysicist
Sven Keinanen - Ship Captain
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Terry Whitney - Watchstander
Tom Thornton - Electronics Technician

Location:

Arctic

Boundaries
North: 67.5145 South: 64.4815 West: -168.312 East: -165.4079

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

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

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information
Free Air Anomaly data l-6-76-ar.161_011 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-6-76-ar.111
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-6-76-ar.151
Free Air Anomaly data l-6-76-ar.161
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
Digitrack --- Single Beam
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Edited bathymetry data l-6-76-ar.335_011 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Edited bathymetry data l-6-76-ar.335
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Survey information
seismic (data on FAD)
sparker --- Sparker
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
bottomseismometer --- Ocean Bottom Seismometer
Survey information
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data l-6-76-ar.010
Dead reckoning data l-6-76-ar.011 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data l-6-76-ar.011_degree
Survey information
Tape list
Lines
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data l-6-76-ar.011_lines
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-6-76-ar.000
Satellite data l-6-76-ar.001
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
Burgsparker --- Sparker
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Edited magnetics data l-6-76-ar.220_011 (Provisional best file)
Raw gradiometer data l-6-76-ar.240
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-6-76-ar.200
Raw magnetics data l-6-76-ar.200_011
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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