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Field Activity Details for field activity L678AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-6-78-AR

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Steve Eittreim, Art Grantz

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1978-08-26

End Date: 1978-09-20

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Glen Barker, Bob Briggs, Jean Cassand, Steve Davenport, Dave Dinter, Patrick Hart, Dave Hogg, Terry Kelley, Dennis Mann, Cheryl Price, Terry Ruff

Affiliate Staff:
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Jon Greenberg - Dafe Curator
Nancy Marks - Watchstander
Olive Whitney - Navigator
Paul Kolling - Watchstander

Notes: physical data holdings
Staff information imported from InfoBank
A (Watchstander) - Lan Von Hornlein
Art Grantz - Chief Scientist
Bob Briggs - Chief Engineer
Cheryl Price - Watchstander
Dave Hogg - Mechanical Technician
Dave Dinter - Navigator
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Jack Lee - Electronics Technician
Jean Cassand - Unsp Investigatr
Jon Greenberg - Dafe Curator
Nancy Marks - Watchstander
Olive Whitney - Navigator
Pat Hart - Watchstander
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Steve Davenport - Navigator
Steve Eittreim - Chief Scientist
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Terry Ruff - Ship Captain

Location:

Arctic

Boundaries
North: 73.13313 South: 64.47219 West: -176.2592 East: -157.17506

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Agena, W.F., Lee, M.W., and Hart, P.E., 2001, Reprocessing of multi-channel seismic-reflection data collected in the Chukchi Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2001-330, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr01330.

Grantz, A., Mann, D.M., and May, S.D., 1986, Multichannel seismic-reflection data collected in 1978 in the eastern Chukchi Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-206, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1986/0206/.

Grantz, A. and G., Jonathan, 1981, Map showing tracklines of high-resolution Uniboom seismic reflection profiles collected August 26 through September 19, 1978, on the Chukchi Sea, 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 81-33, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr8133.

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.

Tolson, R.B., Grantz, A., and Mann, D.M., 1987, Multichannel seismic-reflection data from the southern Chukchi Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 87-0019, 7 p.

Portals/Viewers

FAN L678AR 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=L678AR.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
uniboom --- Boomer
156351 239 16 31 LINE TRANSIT - 240 14 50 LINE 802
156351 240 17 44 LINE 802
156351 242 14 17 LINE 803 - 243 21 40 LINE 805
156351 243 01 00 LINE 803
156351 243 13 00 LINE 804
156351 243 21 52 LINE 805 - 245 04 39 LINE 806
156351 244 02 30 LINE 805
156351 245 13 24 LINE 806
156351 245 23 00 LINE 807
156351 246 23 17 LINE 808
156351 247 14 58 LINE 809
156351 248 02 13 LINE 809
156351 249 08 00 LINE 811
156351 250 06 00 LINE 813
156351 250 12 38 LINE 813
156351 252 18 00 LINE 816
156351 252 22 43 LINE 816
156351 253 02 23 LINE 817
156351 253 15 50 LINE 818
156351 255 05 27 LINE 819 - 256 14 08 LINE 821
156351 255 10 00 LINE 819
156351 255 19 00 LINE 819
156351 256 13 12 LINE 820
156351 257 03 00 LINE 821
156351 257 10 00 LINE 822
156351 257 10 04 LINE 823
156351 257 19 30 LINE 823
156351 257 20 05 LINE 823
156351 259 16 30 LINE 824
156351 259 21 45 LINE 825
156351 260 07 23 LINE 825 - 261 12 15 LINE 826
156351 260 11 55 LINE 826
156351 261 12 21 LINE 826 - 262 05 08 LINE 826
Survey information
156351 246 09 42 LINE 808 - 247 14 50 LINE 809
156351 250 06 50 LINE 813
156351 240 10 00 LINE 801
156351 240 15 06 LINE 802
156351 248 04 53 LINE 810
156351 250 03 14 LINE 812
156351 259 00 30 LINE 823
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-6-78-ar.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-6-78-ar.420_011 (Provisional best file)
Scan l-6-78-ar.811ar78.tif
Scan l-6-78-ar.full.1.tif
Scan l-6-78-ar.full.2.tif
Survey information
Scan l-6-78-ar.small.1.tif
Scan l-6-78-ar.small.2.tif
seismic (data on FAD)
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Edited bathymetry data l-6-78-ar.335
Edited bathymetry data l-6-78-ar.336
Survey information
156353 240 10 21 LINE 802
156353 240 15 06 LINE 802
156353 240 18 06 LINE 803
156353 243 02 00 LINE 804
156353 243 13 15 LINE 805
156353 243 21 52 LINE 805
156353 244 03 00 LINE 806
156353 245 04 47 LINE 806 - 246 09 34 LINE 808
156353 245 14 06 LINE 807
156353 247 14 20 LINE 809
156353 247 14 58 LINE 809
156353 248 03 00 LINE 810
156353 248 06 05 LINE 811
156353 248 20 16 LINE 811
156353 245 23 17 LINE 808
Edited bathymetry data l-6-78-ar.336_011 (Provisional best file)
156353 239 16 31 LINE TRANSIT
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
gravity --- Gravity
Survey information
Gravity land tie data l-6-78-ar.140
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-6-78-ar.151
Free Air Anomaly data l-6-78-ar.161
Free Air Anomaly data l-6-78-ar.161_011 (Provisional best file)
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-6-78-ar.111
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Tape list
Dead reckoning data l-6-78-ar.010
Dead reckoning data l-6-78-ar.011 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data l-6-78-ar.011_degree
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-6-78-ar.050
Lines
Survey information
156354 238 07 06 LINE NONE - 241 20 00 LINE 803
156354 241 20 08 LINE 803 - 247 01 56 LINE 808
156354 251 14 38 LINE 814 - 256 08 00 LINE 820
156354 256 08 20 LINE 820 - 263 05 32 LINE NONE
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
156354 247 02 14 LINE 808 - 251 14 30 LINE 814
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data l-6-78-ar.000
Satellite data l-6-78-ar.001
Survey information

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