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Field Activity Details for field activity P193AR

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AKA: none

Other ID: P-1-93-AR

Status: Completed

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Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Art Grantz

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: CTD, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Multichannel, Seismics: Sonobuoy, Sonar: Single Beam

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Start Date: 1993-08-17

End Date: 1993-09-15

Equipment Used: CTD, Other, multichannel, gravity, magnetics, boxcore, navigation, bathymetry, pistoncore, sonobuoy, airgun

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Jonathan Childs, Dave Dinter, Ledabeth Gray, Patrick Hart, Michael McCormick, Mark McLaughlin, Mike Mullen, Kevin O'Toole, Bill Robinson, David Scholl, Jim Vaughan, Hal Williams

Affiliate Staff:
Larry Phillips (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
H. Ruth Jackson (Geological Survey of Canada) - Geophysicist
Carl Byers (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Shusun Li (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Kenneth Schwartz (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Alan Gagnon - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Notes: physical data holdings
seismic equipment type added 2/14/18

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Art Grantz (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Jon Childs (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Dave Dinter (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Ledabeth Gray (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Pat Hart (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Michael McCormick (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Mark McLaughlin (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Mike Mullen (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Kevin O'Toole (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Larry Phillips (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Bill Robinson (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Dave Scholl (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Jim Vaughn (USGS Western Region) - Electronic Technician
Hal Williams (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
H. Ruth Jackson (Geological Survey of Canada) - Geophysicist
Carl Byers (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Shusun Li (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Kenneth Schwartz (Fairbanks) - University of Alaska
Alan Gagnon - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Location:

Northwind Escarpment

Boundaries
North: 78.80412 South: 70.98872 West: -159.673 East: -137.59459

Platform(s):

photo of Polar Star
Polar Star

Publications

Grantz, A., Hart, P.E., Phillips, R.L., McCormick, M., Perkin, R.G., Jackson, R., Gagnon, A., Li, S., Byers, C., and Schwartz, K.R., 1993, Cruise report and preliminary results, U.S. Geological Survey Cruise P1-93-AR, Northwind Ridge and Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, aboard USCGC Polar Star, August 16-September 15, 1993: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 93-0389, 35 p., https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr93389.

Grantz, A., May, Steven D., Hart, Patrick E., and Srivastava, S.P., 1995, Crustal structure of the Canada Basin, Arctic Ocean, and the character of the continental margin north of Alaska: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 76 no. 46, pp. 592–593.

Hart, P.E., Grantz, Arthur, May, Steven D., O'Toole, Kevin, and Erickson, Jon, 1995, Seismic profiling through the Arctic Ocean ice pack: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 76 no. 46, pp. 589–589.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
CTD --- Surveys (geochemical)
Experiments (geochemical)
CTD
Other --- --- ---
multichannel --- Multichannel
interpreted seismic lines (data in holdings)
IrnMnt_shot (data in FAD)
demux (data in FAD)
stack (data in FAD)
gravity --- Gravity
Free Air Anomaly data p-1-93-ar.161
Free Air Anomaly data p-1-93-ar.162
Free Air Anomaly data p-1-93-ar.162_051 (Provisional best file)
Raw gravity data from digital meter p-1-93-ar.100
Raw gravity data from digital meter p-1-93-ar.101
Raw gravity data from digital meter p-1-93-ar.102
Free Air Anomaly data p-1-93-ar.160
Gravity land tie data p-1-93-ar.140
magnetics --- Magnetics
Undefined p-1-93-ar.290
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
box core logs (data in holdings)
navigation --- Navigation
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-93-ar.050
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-93-ar.051 (Provisional best file)
Integrated navigation (SINS) data p-1-93-ar.051_degree
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
bathymetry --- Single Beam
Edited bathymetry data p-1-93-ar.330
Edited bathymetry data p-1-93-ar.331
Edited bathymetry data p-1-93-ar.332
Raw depth (bathymetry) data p-1-93-ar.300
Raw depth (bathymetry) data p-1-93-ar.301
Edited bathymetry data p-1-93-ar.332_051 (Provisional best file)
pistoncore --- Geology
Station Information
piston core logs (data in holdings)
sonobuoy --- Sonobuoy
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_051
Raw SEGY data (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS):)
Stack seismic data (Download SEG-Y files from National Archive of Marine Seismic Surveys (NAMSS))
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_100th_051
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_25th
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_500th_051
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.421
zip data &/infobank/p/p193ar/seis/p193ar_stk.zip (Provisional best file)
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.421_051 (Provisional best file)
sono (data in FAD)
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_100th
Edited seismic shot point data p-1-93-ar.420_25th_051
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun

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