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Field Activity Details for field activity L884SP

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-8-84-SP

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Tom Chase

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: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Rabaul, New Britain, PN

End Port/Location: Majuro

Start Date: 1984-07-19

End Date: 1984-07-26

Equipment Used: 12khz, 3.5khz, gravity, landtie, integratednavigation, transitsatellite, airgun, magnetics, uniboom

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Kaye Kinoshita, Al McClenaghan, Chris Poppe, Pat Wilde

Affiliate Staff:
Charles Hall - Chief Engineer
Michele Krup (OTEC) - Watchstander

Notes: Based on data in best navigation file, l-8-84-sp.071, cumulative trackline distance to the nearest tens of kilometers is 2630 kilometers.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Charles Hall - Chief Engineer
Chris Poppe - Chief Mate
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Michele Krup (OTEC) - Watchstander
Pat Wilde (OTEC) - Geologist
Tom Chase - Chief Scientist

Location:

Southern Pacific

Boundaries
North: 7.19055 South: -4.87884 West: 152.171 East: 171.40581

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.

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