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Field Activity Details for field activity L881WG

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-8-81-WG

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Terry Bruns

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Kodiak, AK and Kodiak, AK

End Port/Location: Kodiak, AK and Dutch Harbor, AK

Start Date: 1981-07-04

End Date: 1981-07-16

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, gravity, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, RhoRho, transitsatellite, airgunmonitor, sonobuoy, 24channel, magnetics, airgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Donna Blackman, Barb Blubaugh, Guy Cochrane, Aaron Dunwald, Sue Hunt, Kaye Kinoshita, Pat McClellan, Kevin O'Toole, Gordon Tanner, Paul Wenberg

Affiliate Staff:
Bob Mallonee - Watchstander
Bob Rothman - Chief Mate
Frank Johnson - Ship Captain
Peter Schurch - Watchstander
Rich Joyce - Electronics Technician
Ross Voorhees - Watchstander

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Aaron Dunwald - Chief Engineer
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Bob Mallonee - Watchstander
Bob Rothman - Chief Mate
Donna Blackman - Navigator
Frank Johnson - Ship Captain
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Guy Cochrane - Dafe Curator
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Kevin O'Toole - Mechanical Technician
Pat McClellan - Watchstander
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Peter Schurch - Watchstander
Rich Joyce - Electronics Technician
Ross Voorhees - Watchstander
Sue Hunt - Watchstander
Terry Bruns - Chief Scientist

Location:

Western Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 57.79134 South: 53.38086 West: -166.532 East: -152.0426

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

FAN L881WG 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=L881WG.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data l-8-81-wg.301
Edited bathymetry data l-8-81-wg.335
Edited bathymetry data l-8-81-wg.335_053 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-8-81-wg.111
Free Air Anomaly data l-8-81-wg.161
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-8-81-wg.151
SKIPNSAVED Free Air Anomaly data l-8-81-wg.151_053 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Tape list
Position update data l-8-81-wg.020
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
field logs (data on FAD)
Tape list 2
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-81-wg.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-81-wg.052
Lines
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-81-wg.051
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-81-wg.053
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-8-81-wg.053_degree
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data l-8-81-wg.000
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
seismic (data on FAD)
Edited seismic shot point data l-8-81-wg.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-8-81-wg.420_053 (Provisional best file)
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-8-81-wg.200
Edited magnetics data l-8-81-wg.220_053 (Provisional best file)
Raw magnetics data l-8-81-wg.200_053
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information

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