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Field Activity Details for field activity L880AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-8-80-AR

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Art Grantz

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1980-08-31

End Date: 1980-09-20

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, gravity, bathgravnav, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, transitsatellite, dartcore, gravitycore, chaindredge, uniboom, airgun, sonobuoy, Burgairgun, 24channel, airgunmonitor, sidescansonar, bathnav

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Susan Besser, Dave Dinter, Joe Edwards, Roy Fields, Terry Kelley, Kaye Kinoshita, Dennis Mann, Steve May, Jim Saltzgaber, Gordon Tanner, Paul Wenberg

Affiliate Staff:
Darrell Klingman - Watchstander
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Jim Wilkerson - Chief Mate
Larry Lawver (MIT) - Geophysicist
Lyn Smith - Watchstander
Pat Baird (Fish
Wildlife) - Biologist
Tad Monroe (State Dept) - Unspecified Investigator

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Art Grantz - Chief Scientist
Darrell Klingman - Watchstander
Dave Dinter - Geophysicist
Dennis Mann - Watchstander
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Jim Saltzgaber - Chief Engineer
Jim Wilkerson - Chief Mate
Joe Edwards - Mechanical Technician
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Larry Lawver (MIT) - Geophysicist
Lyn Smith - Watchstander
Pat Baird (Fish, Wildlife) - Biologist
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Roy Fields - Electronics Technician
Steve May - Geophysicist
Susan Besser - Dafe Curator
Tad Monroe (State Dept) - Unspecified Investigator
Terry Kelley - Electronics Technician

Location:

Arctic

Boundaries
North: 71.48888 South: 64.46445 West: -171.9901 East: -163.10323

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., Dinter, D.A., Hill, Edwin, and Chase, T.E., 1982, Map showing tracklines of high-resolution uniboom seismic-reflection profiles collected August 31 through September 21, 1980, in the Chukchi Sea, Alaska, 1 sheet, scale 1:1,000,000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 82-527, http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr82527.

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 L880AR 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=L880AR.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data l-8-80-ar.335
Edited bathymetry data l-8-80-ar.335_052 (Provisional best file)
Undefined l-8-80-ar.390
Survey information
197113 250 03 04 LINE 008
197113 263 17 30 LINE 024
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-8-80-ar.111
Gravity land tie data l-8-80-ar.140
Free Air Anomaly data l-8-80-ar.163
Free Air Anomaly data l-8-80-ar.163_052 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
bathgravnav --- Gravity
Navigation
Single Beam
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Tape list
Tape list 2
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-80-ar.052_degree
Lines
Survey information
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-80-ar.052 (Provisional best file)
field logs (data on FAD)
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-8-80-ar.002
dartcore --- Geology
Station Information
gravitycore --- Geology
chaindredge --- Geology
Station Information
uniboom --- Boomer
156435 246 18 28 LINE 004
156435 249 18 30 LINE 007
156435 251 20 MIN LINE 009
156435 252 20 15 LINE 010
156435 254 05 34 LINE 011
156435 246 04 42 LINE 003
156435 254 18 30 LINE 012
156435 255 20 28 LINE 013
156435 258 04 26 LINE 015
156435 258 19 MIN LINE 017
156436 259 09 28 LINE 018
156436 261 04 57 LINE 019
156436 262 04 26 LINE 021
156436 263 05 50 LINE 023
156436 264 02 40 LINE 024
Survey information
156436 261 14 MIN LINE 020
156435 250 11 30 LINE 008
156436 262 17 50 LINE 022
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
Burgairgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Edited seismic shot point data l-8-80-ar.420
Scan l-8-80-ar.full.tif
Survey information
Scan l-8-80-ar.small.tif
Image l-8-80-ar.thumb.jpg
Edited seismic shot point data l-8-80-ar.420_052 (Provisional best file)
seismic (data on FAD)
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
bathnav --- Navigation
Single Beam

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