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Field Activity Details for field activity S576BS

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-5-76-BS,SEA5-76-BS

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Hans Nelson

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location:

End Port/Location:

Start Date: 1976-09-20

End Date: 1976-10-14

Equipment Used: uniboom, sparker, miniranger, airgunarcer, sidescansonar, 3.5khz, gravity, vibratingcore, gravitycore, boxcore, samples, Soutargrab, underwatertelevision, Geoprobe, Niskenbottle, VanDornbottle, waterbucket, tempsalinometer, expendablebatthermograph, transmissometer, Hydroproducts, underwatercamera

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings 4201.9 km of tracklines

Staff: Roland Brady, Dave Cacchione, Ed Clukey, Dave Drake, Jim Evans, Michael Field, Otis Finnley, Rich Garlow, Helen Gibbons, Chris Gutmacher, Carol Hirozawa, Mark Holmes, Brad Larsen, Al McClenaghan, Kelly Mitchell, Tor Nilsen, Bob Novak, Don Phillips, Gordon Tanner, George Tate

Affiliate Staff:
Jim Howard (Alaska) - Geologist
Robert Howland - Geologist
Dave Winter (UCLA) - Geochemist
Mark Sandstrom (UCLA) - Geochemist
Louise Jaffe (Alaska) - Biologist
Jan Johnson - Watch Stander
John Newby - Unspecified Investigator

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan - Ship Captain
Don Phillips - Chief Engineer
Kelly Mitchell - Chief Mate
Hans Nelson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Brad Larsen (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Tor Nilsen (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Mike Field (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Jim Howard (Alaska) - Geologist
Robert Howland - Geologist
Mark Holmes (USGS Western Region) - Geophysicist
Dave Winter (UCLA) - Geochemist
Mark Sandstrom (UCLA) - Geochemist
Louise Jaffe (Alaska) - Biologist
Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Oceanographer
Dave Drake (USGS Western Region) - Oceanographer
Gordon Tanner (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Robert Novak (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Otis Finnley - Watch Stander
George Tate (USGS Western Region) - Watch Stander
Jim Evans (USGS Western Region) - Watch Stander
Roland Brady - Watch Stander
Chris Gutmacher (USGS Western Region) - Watch Stander
Jan Johnson - Watch Stander
Carol Hirozawa - Watch Stander
Helen Gibbons (USGS Western Region) - Watch Stander
Rich Garlow (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
John Newby - Unspecified Investigator
Ed Clukey (USGS Western Region) - Unspecified Investigator

Location:

Northern Bering Sea

Boundaries
North: 65.76901 South: 53.87854 West: -168.823 East: -160.95386

Platform(s):

photo of Sea Sounder
Sea Sounder

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
uniboom --- Boomer
sparker --- Sparker
miniranger --- Navigation
Raw Miniranger data s-5-76-bs.621
Dead reckoning data s-5-76-bs.010 (Provisional best file)
Miniranger Land Table in Lat/Long s-5-76-bs.640
Edited ranging navigation data with Lat/Long s-5-76-bs.691
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data s-5-76-bs.010_degree
Raw Miniranger data s-5-76-bs.620
airgunarcer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Edited bathymetry data s-5-76-bs.335
Edited bathymetry data s-5-76-bs.335_010 (Provisional best file)
gravity --- Gravity
vibratingcore --- Geology
131c
49e
Station Information
101c
102c
103c
106
121d
125e
137b
145
145a
69a
69c
70b
71a
72a
94c
133b
88f
89a
gravitycore --- Geology
40a
40b
42a
43b
45a
Station Information
44b
boxcore --- Biology
Geology
156a
Station Information
121h
149a
133a
141a
141b
150a
152a
154b
157c
160d
161a
162a
163c
164
166a
168c
121e
145d
159a
samples --- Biology
Chemistry
Geology
131d
41a
018
104
105
125a
137c
147
152b
154a
156b
160f
162b
166b
168b
169a
169c
170a
170b
172
174a
174d
175
176
40c
43c
47b
70d
Station Information
Station log
157a
88d
Soutargrab --- Geology
Station Information
underwatertelevision --- Video
Geoprobe --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
geoprobe annual report (data in PCMSC holdings)
Niskenbottle --- Chemistry
VanDornbottle --- Chemistry
waterbucket --- Chemistry
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
expendablebatthermograph --- Temperature
transmissometer --- Turbidity
Hydroproducts --- Chemistry
underwatercamera --- Photo

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