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Field Activity Details for field activity S169NS

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-1-69-NS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

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Principal Investigator(s): Hans Nelson

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Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology

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Start Date: 1969-06-21

End Date: 1969-09-05

Equipment Used: VanVeengrab, gravitycore, boxcore, Phlegercore, Nansenbottle, waterbucket, pipedredge, temperature, tempsalinometer, magnetometer, deadreckoning, planktonnet

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Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

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Notes:
Staff information imported from InfoBank
Hans Nelson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 66.68833 South: 62.5 West: -168.92 East: -162.03817

Platform(s):

photo of Surveyor
Surveyor

Publications

Nelson, C.H., Pierce, D.E., Leong, K.W., and Wang, F.F.H., 1972, Mercury distribution in Ancient and Modern Sediment of Northeastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 72-0268, http://www.dggs.dnr.state.ak.us/webpubs/usgs/of/text/of72-0268.PDF.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
VanVeengrab --- Geology
Station Information
gravitycore --- Geology
Station Information
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
Station Information
Phlegercore --- Geology
Station Information
Nansenbottle --- Chemistry
Station Information
waterbucket --- Chemistry
Station Information
pipedredge --- Geology
Station Information
temperature --- Temperature
Station Information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
Station Information
magnetometer --- Magnetics
Raw magnetics data s-1-69-ns.200
Edited magnetics data s-1-69-ns.220_010 (Provisional best file)
Raw magnetics data s-1-69-ns.200_010
deadreckoning --- Navigation
Dead reckoning data s-1-69-ns.010 (Provisional best file)
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
planktonnet --- Biology
Station Information

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