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Field Activity Details for field activity M105SC

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AKA: none

Other ID: M-1-05-SC,TUIM13MV_(Scripps)

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s): NSF-funded cruise (MU213)

Principal Investigator(s):

Affiliate Investigator(s): Craig Nicholson (Santa Barbara)

Information Specialist(s): Bill Normark

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Boomer

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Sample late Pleistocene strata exposed along the crest of an actively growing anticline within Santa Barbara Basin to recover high-resolution records of global climate.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: San Diego, CA

End Port/Location: Santa Barbara, CA

Start Date: 2005-08-19

End Date: 2005-08-26

Equipment Used: GPS, pistoncore, Chirp, gravitycore

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: This primary purpose of the cruise was piston-coring a late Pleistocene sedimentary section exposed across a breached anticline. Bill Normark, Larry Kooker, and Ray Sliter of Coastal and Marine Geology participated to provide Chirp sonar data in order to site the cores. The USGS conducted chirp profiling during 4 of the 6 days on station, with each session about 4 hours in length. The cores, which were logged and described on board, will be shipped to the core archive facility at Oregon State University.

Staff: Robert Decesari, Larry Kooker, Bill Normark, Ray Sliter

Affiliate Staff:
Craig Nicholson (UC Santa Barbara) - Chief scientist
Jim Kennett (chief scientist
UC Santa Barbara) - Co
Christopher Sorlien (PI
Seismic data interpretation
UC Santa Barbara) - Co
Sarah Hopkins (UC Santa Barbara) - Seismic data interpretation
Dorothy Pak (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Jennifer Osborne (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Undergraduate Student
Erin Ricketts (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Dan Murphy (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Pete Kalk (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Chris Moser (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Paul Walczak (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Nell Oschein (Oregon State University) - MST core logger
Rheannon Hill (Oregon State University) - MST core logger
Richard Behl (Cal State Univ. Long Beach) - Sedimentologist
Pamela Hill (UC Los Angeles) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Arndt Schimmelmann (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Mirela Dumitrescu (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Irene Arango (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Tessa Hill (UC Davis) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Steven Macalello (UC Davis) - Sediment lab/ Undergraduate Student
Kevin Cannariato (Univ. Southern California) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Chris Curl (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Captain
Woody Sutherland (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Computer Technician
Cambria Colt (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Marine Research Technician
Gene Pillard (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Marine Research Technician

Notes: The piston coring and chirp profiling operations ceased 0800 on 08/26/05 offshore Santa Barbara; all but nine of the scientific party were transferred ashore by water taxi, including all USGS personnel. The R/V Melville then transited to Seattle, WA to officially end the leg on 08/30/05. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) identifies the cruise as TUIM13MV ending in Seattle. TUIM13MV is SI Oceanographys cruise ID indicating leg 13 of Expedition TUIMV. The expedition was an NSF-funded cruise (C. Nicholson, J. Kennett, and C. Sorlien, UC Santa Barbara, co-PIs) in collaboration with the USGS CMG Southern California earthquake hazard task of the CABRILLO Project. In the University of California Santa Barbara records, the cruise is recorded as SBCORE.

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Craig Nicholson (UC Santa Barbara) - Chief scientist
Jim Kennett (chief scientist, UC Santa Barbara) - Co
Christopher Sorlien (PI, Seismic data interpretation, UC Santa Barbara) - Co
Sarah Hopkins (UC Santa Barbara) - Seismic data interpretation
Dorothy Pak (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Jennifer Osborne (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Undergraduate Student
Robert Decesari (UC Santa Barbara) - Geophysical Graduate Student
Erin Ricketts (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Dan Murphy (UC Santa Barbara) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Pete Kalk (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Chris Moser (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Paul Walczak (Oregon State University) - Piston core technician
Nell Oschein (Oregon State University) - MST core logger
Rheannon Hill (Oregon State University) - MST core logger
Bill Normark (US Geological Survey) - Sedimentologist
Ray Sliter (US Geological Survey) - Chirp data processing
Larry Kooker (US Geological Survey) - Electronic technician
Richard Behl (Cal State Univ. Long Beach) - Sedimentologist
Pamela Hill (UC Los Angeles) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Arndt Schimmelmann (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Mirela Dumitrescu (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Irene Arango (University of Indiana) - Sediment lab/ Graduate Student
Tessa Hill (UC Davis) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Steven Macalello (UC Davis) - Sediment lab/ Undergraduate Student
Kevin Cannariato (Univ. Southern California) - Sediment lab/ Scientist
Chris Curl (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Captain
Woody Sutherland (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Computer Technician
Cambria Colt (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Marine Research Technician
Gene Pillard (Scripps Inst. Oceanography) - Marine Research Technician

Location:

offshore Southern California

Boundaries
North: 34.28277 South: 32.63693 West: -120.0358 East: -117.29814

Platform(s):

photo of Melville
Melville

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Global positioning system (GPS) data m-1-05-sc.060
Global positioning system (GPS) data m-1-05-sc.061 (Provisional best file)
Lines
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Global positioning system (GPS) data m-1-05-sc.060_eotcssp
pistoncore --- Geology
Station Information
Chirp --- Boomer
gravitycore --- Geology

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