AKA: none
Other ID: S-6-77-BS
Status: Completed
Organization(s):
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Jim Gardner, Tracy Vallier
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: CTD, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Current, Environmental Data: Temperature, Environmental Data: Turbidity, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Chemistry, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sparker, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals:
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK and Dutch Harbor, AK, Test CR and Dutch Harbor, AK
End Port/Location: Dutch Harbor, AK and Dutch Harbor, AK and Kodiak, AK
Start Date: 1977-08-06
End Date: 1977-09-10
Equipment Used: integratednavigation, LoranC, transitsatellite, dopplersonar, 3.5khz, 12khz, magnetics, airgun, minisparker, airgunarcer, uniboom, underwatertelevision, currentmeter, CTD, tempsalinometer, gravitycore, pistoncore, chaindredge, VanVeengrab, Niskenbottle, VanDornbottle, Digitrack, underwatercamera, sidescansonar, Hydroproducts, expendablebatthermograph, gravity, transmissometer
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: Neal Barnes, Roland Brady, John Cudnohufsky, Walter Dean, Tom Frost, Rich Garlow, Helen Gibbons, Margaret Goud, Gordon Hess, Ornulf Johannessen, Herman Karl, Dave Klise, Keith Kvenvolden, Steve Lewis, Al McClenaghan, Bob Patrick, George Redden, Don Reed, John Saladin, Howard Sheppard, Edith Stanley, Mike Underwood, Curley Winebrenner
Affiliate Staff:
Alexis Budai (Scripps) - Geologist
Tom Hartman - Mechanical Technician
Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Al McClenaghan (USGS Western Region) - Ship Captain
Alexis Budai (Scripps) - Geologist
Bob Patrick (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Curley Winebrenner - Mechanical Technician
Dave Klise (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Don Reed (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Edith Stanley (UC Davis) - Geologist
George Redden (USGS Western Region) - Geochemist
Gordon Hess (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Howard Sheppard - Chief Engineer
Helen Gibbons (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Herman Karl (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
John Cudnohufsky - Biologist
John Saladin (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Keith Kvenvolden (USGS Western Region) - Geochemist
Margaret Goud (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Mike Underwood (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Neal Barnes (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Ornulf Johannessen - Chief Mate
Rich Garlow (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Roland Brady - Geologist
Steve Lewis (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Tom Frost - Geologist
Tom Hartman - Mechanical Technician
Tracy Vallier (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Walter Dean - Geologist
Location:
Alaska
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 57.69909 | South: 53.53336 | West: -172.881 | East: -151.25893 |
Platform(s):
 Sea Sounder |
Cooper, A.K., Scholl, D.W., Marlow, M.S., Childs, J.R., Redden, G.P., and Kvenvolden, K.A., 1978, The Aleutian Basin, Bering Sea; a frontier area for hydrocarbon exploration: Offshore Technology Conference Proceedings 10(1), pp. 353–362.
Cooper, A.K., Scholl, D.W., Marlow, M.S., Childs, J.R., Redden, G.D., Kvenvolden, K.A., and Stevenson, A.J., 1979, Hydrocarbon potential of Aleutian Basin, Bering Sea: American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin, v. 61 no. 11, pp. 2070–2087.
Gardner, J.V. and V., T.L., 1978, Underway seismic data collected on U.S.G.S. cruise S6-77, southeastern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 78-322, 5 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr78322.
Gardner, J.V., Vallier, T.L., Dean, W.E., Kvenvolden, K.A., and Redden, G.D., 1979, Sedimentology and geochemistry of surface sediments and the distribution of faults and potentially unstable sediments, St. George Basin region of the outer continental shelf, southern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1562, 88 p., http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/ofr791562.
Kvenvolden, K.A., and Redden, G.D., 1980, Hydrocarbon gas in sediment from the shelf, slope, and basin of the Bering Sea: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, v. 44 no. 8, pp. 1145–1150.
Kvenvolden, K.A., Vogel, T.M., and Gardner, J.V., 1981, Geochemical prospecting for hydrocarbons in the outer continental shelf, southern Bering Sea, Alaska: Journal of Geochemical Exploration, v. 14 no. 2-3, pp. 209–219.
Lee-Wong, F., and Vallier, T.L., 1979, Petrology of alkali basalt from the Pribilof Islands region, southern Bering Sea: American Geophysical Union Eos, Transactions, v. 60 no. 46, pp. 972–972.
Lee-Wong, F., Vallier, T.L., Hopkins, D.M., and Silberman, M.L., 1979, Preliminary report on the petrography and geochemistry of basalt from the Pribilof Islands and vicinity, southern Bering Sea: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 79-1556, 53 p.
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.
Wong, F.L., Vallier, T.L., Underwood, M.B., Gardner, J.V., and Jones, D.L., 1980, Petrology of rocks from the Pribilof Islands region, southern Bering Sea shelf: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1175, pp. 162–163.
