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Field Activity Details for field activity L877BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-8-77-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Alan Cooper, Mike Marlow

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1977-07-29

End Date: 1977-08-21

Equipment Used: sonobuoy, uniboom, sparker, 12khz, airgun, Burgairgun, 3.5khz, gravity, 24channel, Digitrack, gradiometer, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, airgunmonitor

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Bob Novak, Carrie Carpenter, Don Tompkins, Glen Barker, Graig McHendrie, Jim Joyce, Jon Erickson, Paula Shryock, Terry Kelley, Jonathan Childs

Affiliate Staff:
Cassie Oetken - Watchstander
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Sven Keinanen - Ship Captain
Vaughn Marshall - Geophysicist

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
A (Watchstander) - Lan Von Hornlein
Alan Cooper - Chief Scientist
Bob Novak - Electronics Technician
Carrie Carpenter - Dafe Curator
Cassie Oetken - Watchstander
Don Tompkins - Geophysicist
Frank Johnson - Chief Mate
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Graig McHendrie - Navigator
Jim Joyce - Watchstander
John Simpson - Chief Engineer
Jon Childs - Geophysicist
Jon Erickson - Mechanical Technician
Mike Marlow - Chief Scientist
Paul Kolling - Watchstander
Paula Shryock - Navigator
Sven Keinanen - Ship Captain
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician
Vaughn Marshall - Geophysicist

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 64.48405 South: 54.18311 West: 176.7125 East: -152.02892

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.

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, M.S., and Mann, D.M., 1986, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1977 in the northern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 86-0207, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1986/0207/.

Marlow, M.S., and Cooper, A.K., 1979, Multichannel seismic-reflection profiles collected in 1977 in the northern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1147, 3 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr791147.

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 L877BS 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=L877BS.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
uniboom --- Boomer
sparker --- Sparker
12khz --- Single Beam
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
gravity --- Gravity
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
24channel --- Multichannel
Multichannel data (stack data)
Digitrack --- Single Beam
gradiometer --- Magnetics
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
dopplersonar --- Navigation
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data l-8-77-bs.011 (Provisional best file)
RhoRho --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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