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Field Activity Details for field activity P785CN

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AKA: none

Other ID: P-7-85-CN

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Byron Ruppel

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia and Halifax, Nova Scotia

End Port/Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia and Halifax, Nova Scotia

Start Date: 1985-07-17

End Date: 1985-09-17

Equipment Used: integratednavigation, meter32, meter41, gravity, bathymetry

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Brian Burton, Henry Casas, Greg Gabel, John Gann, Chris Poppe, Cecil Ray, Jim Vaughan

Affiliate Staff:
Charlie Parsons (USGS) - Chief Engineer
Frank Lehr (DMA) - Watchstander
John Winningham - Ship Captain
Robert Ziegler (DMA) - Watchstander
Seth Isreal (DMA) - Watchstander

Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Brian Burton (USGS) - Chief Mate
Byron Ruppel (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Cecil Ray (USGS) - Chief Engineer
Charlie Parsons (USGS) - Chief Engineer
Chris Poppe (USGS) - Ship Captain
Frank Lehr (DMA) - Watchstander
Greg Gabel (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Henry Casas (USGS) - Watchstander
Jim Vaughan (USGS) - Watchstander
John Gann (USGS) - Watchstander
John Winningham - Ship Captain
Robert Ziegler (DMA) - Watchstander
Seth Isreal (DMA) - Watchstander

Location:

Nova Scotia

Boundaries
North: 46.31732 South: 43.2961 West: -64.0059 East: -55.8914

Platform(s):

photo of John Wesley Powell
John Wesley Powell

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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