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Field Activity Details for field activity S678EG

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-6-78-EG

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Paul Carlson, Bruce Molnia

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, 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: Yakutat, AK

End Port/Location: Seward, AK

Start Date: 1978-07-10

End Date: 1978-07-20

Equipment Used: 3.5khz, 12khz, airgunarcer, gravitycore, VanVeengrab, uniboom, tempsalinometer, underwatertelevision, minisparker, underwatercamera, sidescansonar, integratednavigation, LoranC, transitsatellite, sparker

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Tom Atwood, Glen Barker, Charlie Fitts, Rich Garlow, John Laingor, Bill Levy, Paula Quinterno, Mel Rappeport, John Saladin, Ron Schmitz, Bill Soule, Edith Stanley, Mark Wheeler, Bob Wilson

Affiliate Staff:
Bill Schwab - Watchstander
Dennis Thurston - Unsp Investigatr
K. Simpson - Ship Captain

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Bill Levy - Watchstander
Bill Schwab - Watchstander
Bob Wilson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Bruce Molnia (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Charlie Fitts - Watchstander
Dennis Thurston - Unsp Investigatr
Edith Stanley (Uc Davis) - Watchstander
Glen Barker - Mechanical Technician
John Laingor - Chief Mate
John Saladin - Electronics Technician
K. Simpson - Ship Captain
Mark Wheeler - Watchstander
Mel Rappeport - Watchstander
Paul Carlson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Paula Quinterno (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Rich Garlow (USGS Western Region) - Watchstander
Ron Schmitz - Electronics Technician
Tom Atwood - Watchstander
Bill Soule - Chief Engineer

Location:

Eastern Gulf of Alaska

Boundaries
North: 60.12041 South: 59.02456 West: -149.4337 East: -138.37505

Platform(s):

photo of Sea Sounder
Sea Sounder

Publications

Carlson, P.R., Molnia, B.F., and Wheeler, M.C., 1980, Seafloor geologic hazards in OCS lease area 55, eastern Gulf of Alaska: Offshore Technology Conference Proceeding 4(12), pp. 593–603.

Molnia, B.F., and Carlson, P.R., 1980, Quaternary sedimentary facies of the northeast Gulf of Alaska Continental Shelf: U. S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1175, pp. 158–159.

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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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Raw depth (bathymetry) data s-6-78-eg.301
Edited bathymetry data s-6-78-eg.330
Survey information
NGDC MGD77 data - bathy
Edited bathymetry data s-6-78-eg.330_011 (Provisional best file)
airgunarcer --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
gravitycore --- Geology
15b
13b
15a
9b
16a
19b
9a
3c
8a
8b
foram slides (data in holdings)
11
12a
12b
13a
14a
14c
16b
17a
17b
18a
18b
19a
2a
Station Information
VanVeengrab --- Geology
1e
Station Information
3a-1v
4-2v
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
Station Information
underwatertelevision --- Video
Survey information
minisparker --- Sparker
Survey information
underwatercamera --- Photo
Station Information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
Dead reckoning data s-6-78-eg.011 (Provisional best file)
Dead reckoning data s-6-78-eg.011_degree
Survey information
Lines
LoranC --- Navigation
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Satellite data s-6-78-eg.000
Survey information
sparker --- Sparker

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