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Field Activity Details for field activity L980BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: L-9-80-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Gary Boucher, Michael Fisher

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Nome, AK

End Port/Location: Nome, AK

Start Date: 1980-09-24

End Date: 1980-10-06

Equipment Used: sonobuoy, 12khz, 3.5khz, airgun, gravity, magnetics, airgunmonitor, bathnav, bathgravnav, LoranC, dopplersonar, integratednavigation, transitsatellite, uniboom, 24channel

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Barb Blubaugh, Dave Melendrez, Glen Barker, Gordon Tanner, Guy Cochrane, Jim Saltzgaber, Kaye Kinoshita, Larry Flora, Paul Wenberg, Roy Fields, Susan Besser

Affiliate Staff:
Darrell Klingman - Geophysicist
Dave Jones - Geophysicist
Lyn Smith - Navigator
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain

Notes:

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Barb Blubaugh - Navigator
Darrell Klingman - Geophysicist
Dave Jones - Geophysicist
Dave Melendrez - Chief Mate
Gary Boucher - Chief Scientist
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
Gordon Tanner - Electronics Technician
Guy Cochrane - Geophysicist
Jim Saltzgaber - Chief Engineer
Kaye Kinoshita - Navigator
Larry Flora - Watchstander
Lyn Smith - Navigator
Mike Fisher - Chief Scientist
Paul Wenberg - Mechanical Technician
Richard Heagney - Ship Captain
Roy Fields - Electronics Technician
Susan Besser - Dafe Curator

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 64.4703 South: 61.83404 West: -169.5814 East: -163.07487

Platform(s):

photo of Samuel Phillips Lee
Samuel Phillips Lee

Publications

Mann, D.M., and Fisher, M.A., 1991, Multichannel seismic-reflection data collected in 1980 in Norton Sound, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 91-0254, 4 p., http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1991/0254/.

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 L980BS 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=L980BS.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Undefined l-9-80-bs.390
Edited bathymetry data l-9-80-bs.335
Edited bathymetry data l-9-80-bs.335_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
Raw gravity data from analog meter l-9-80-bs.111
Free Air Anomaly data l-9-80-bs.161
Free Air Anomaly data l-9-80-bs.161_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data l-9-80-bs.200
Raw magnetics data l-9-80-bs.201
Raw magnetics data l-9-80-bs.201_052
Edited magnetics data l-9-80-bs.221_052 (Provisional best file)
NGDC MGD77 data - Magnetics
airgunmonitor --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
bathnav --- Navigation
Single Beam
bathgravnav --- Gravity
Navigation
Single Beam
LoranC --- Navigation
dopplersonar --- Navigation
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Tape list 2
Satellite data l-9-80-bs.003
Dead reckoning data l-9-80-bs.011
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-9-80-bs.052 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data l-9-80-bs.052_degree
Lines
Tape list
field logs (data on FAD)
transitsatellite --- Navigation
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
24channel --- Multichannel
Multichannel data (stack data) (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Edited seismic shot point data l-9-80-bs.420
Edited seismic shot point data l-9-80-bs.420_052 (Provisional best file)
Image l-9-80-bs.thumb.jpg
Scan l-9-80-bs.full.tif
Scan l-9-80-bs.small.tif
seismic (data on FAD)

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