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Field Activity Details for field activity S977NC

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AKA: none

Other ID: S-9-77-NC

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Sam Clarke

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Electro-Magnetic: Gravity, Electro-Magnetic: Magnetics, Environmental Data: Conductivity, Environmental Data: Temperature, Imagery: Photo, Imagery: Video, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals:

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Coos Bay, OR and Crescent City, CA, pull anchor

End Port/Location: anchor Crescent City, CA and Redwood City, CA

Start Date: 1977-11-02

End Date: 1977-11-22

Equipment Used: dopplersonar, transitsatellite, miniranger, LoranC, 3.5khz, 12khz, magnetics, airgun, tempsalinometer, uniboom, sidescansonar, gravity, underwatercamera, underwatertelevision, dartcore, gravitycore, integratednavigation, radar, RhoRho

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: physical data holdings

Staff: Neal Barnes, Art Conradi, Michael Field, Jim Gardner, Gary Greene, Terry Hallinan, Carol Hirozawa, Ornulf Johannessen, Jim Joyce, Al McClenaghan, Jackie Miller, Bob Patrick, Cheryl Price, John Rapp, Bill Richmond, John Saladin, Howard Sheppard, Steve Wallace, Bob Wilson, Florence Wong

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Staff information imported from InfoBank
Neal Barnes (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Sam Clarke (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Art Conradi (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Mike Field (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Jim Gardner (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Gary Greene (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Theresa Hallinan (USGS Western Region) - Dafe Curator
Carol Hirozawa (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Ornulf Johannessen - Chief Mate
Jim Joyce (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
Florence Wong (USGS Western Region) - Navigator
Al McClenaghan (USGS Western Region) - Ship Captain
Jackie Miller - Navigator
Bob Patrick (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Cheryl Price - Navigator
John Rapp (USGS Western Region) - Unsp Investigatr
Bill Richmond (USGS Western Region) - Geologist
John Saladin (USGS Western Region) - Electronics Technician
Howard Sheppard - Chief Engineer
Steve Wallace (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician
Bob Wilson (USGS Western Region) - Mechanical Technician

Location:

Northern California

Boundaries
North: 44.251 South: 37.77735 West: -125.501 East: -122.66253

Platform(s):

photo of Sea Sounder
Sea Sounder

Publications

Reid, J.A., Reid, J.M., Jenkins, C.J., Zimmermann, M., Williams, S.J., and Field, M.E., 2006, usSEABED: Pacific coast (California, Oregon, Washington) offshore surficial-sediment data release: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 182, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/2006/182/.

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., 1995, Sediment distribution on a stream-dominated continental margin, northern California: Implications from heavy-mineral studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 95-614, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1995/0614/report.pdf.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
dopplersonar --- Navigation
Survey information
transitsatellite --- Navigation
Survey information
Satellite data s-9-77-nc.000
miniranger --- Navigation
State Plane data
Raw Miniranger data s-9-77-nc.620
Miniranger Land Table in Lat/Long s-9-77-nc.640
Survey information
LoranC --- Navigation
Survey information
3.5khz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Survey information
12khz --- Single Beam
Survey information
magnetics --- Magnetics
airgun --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Survey information
tempsalinometer --- Conductivity
Temperature
Station Information
uniboom --- Boomer
Survey information
sidescansonar --- Sidescan
Survey information
gravity --- Gravity
NGDC MGD77 data - gravity
Survey information
Station log
underwatercamera --- Photo
Survey information
underwatertelevision --- Video
dartcore --- Geology
Station Information
gravitycore --- Geology
74g
30g
Station Information
70g
72g
33g1
98g
39g
38g
40g
41g
91g
92g
93g
42g
01g
43g
94g
95g
97g
96g
44g
55g
64g
45g
47g
48g
11g
12g
16g
17g
18g
21g
22g
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28g
31g
32g
65g
34g
67g
36g
68g
69g
56g
02g
03g
04g
29g
49g
50g2
51g
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53g
54g
59g1
59g2
60g
61g
71g
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77g
78g
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81g
84g2
85g
86g
87g
88g
33g2
37g
46g
57g
58g
66g
19g
89g
90g
integratednavigation --- Navigation
Lines
Dead reckoning data s-9-77-nc.011_degree
Dead reckoning data s-9-77-nc.011 (Provisional best file)
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format
radar --- Navigation
Survey information
RhoRho --- Navigation

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