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Field Activity Details for field activity T198GB

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AKA: none

Other ID: T-1-98-GB

Status: Completed

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Principal Investigator(s): Paul Carlson, Guy Cochrane, Philip Hooge

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Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Define geological character of biohabitats

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Start Date: 1998-08-21

End Date: 1998-09-01

Equipment Used: Kleinsidescan, 3.5khz, underwatercamera, mudseis, GPS, imageprocessing

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: 8/18-8/20--load and mob Tamnik 8/21-22 SSS lines 1-11 in Bug Bay, 12-27 in eastern Bug/Bartlett River area, 28-35 in Bug Bay proper. 8/22 2 camera drops in Bug Bay 8/22 3rd camera drop off NE side of Strawberry Is to look at grooves or striations (we need to look at these someday to see how similar they are to the Whidbey Passage ice gouges). 8/22 SSS lines in Fingers Bay (So and No) lines 36-92 (all lines to this point run at 100m range). 8/23-8/26 SSS lines 93-133 in Whidbey Passage. Changed range to 150m 8/27 SSS lines perimeter of Bartlet Cove (134-153) 8/27-8/28 grid over entrance moraine; lines 154-182 8/28 ran test lines around Bar Cove dock area; line Dock 75 & Dock 100 8/28 continued Bar Cove w/ lines across Bartlet River pro-delta area SSS lines 184-187 8/29 SSS lines 188-207 in area near Francis and Drake Is. 8/30 Camera drops 4-6 gully northeast of Drake. then SSS lines 208 & 212? 8/30 SSS lines 213-221?? in cove on ne side of Willoughby Is 8/30 SSS lines 222-224 in same general area--ie no of Willoughby??, then reran some Whidbey Passage lines (212 & 95) 8/31 Ran some of Philips famous tangential line along west shore of Whidbey Passage--lines 225-228 8/31--2 camera drops in gouge areas of W.P.until increased wind hampered work 8/31 reran line 167RR over south end of Bar Cove moraine 8/31 dock line 8/31, then redo of line 140=140RR Bar River mouth--ended line as passing dock and sewer outfall. 9/1 repack and demob 9/2 winch & other barge load to AK outpost? then beaucoup boxes to AK Air lv AK air to Juneau 6 pm

Staff: Alex Andrews, Michael Boyle

Affiliate Staff:
Jim De la Bruere (Glacier Bay NPS) - Skipper

Notes: Associated cruises in Alaska Q-1-97-GB T-1-98-GB

Staff information imported from InfoBank
Paul Carlson (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Guy Cochrane (chief Scientist/data Processing, USGS Western Region) - Co
Philip Hooge (chief Scientist, USGS Western Region) - Co
Mike Boyle (USGS Western Region) - Electrical Technician
Jim De la Bruere (Glacier Bay NPS) - Skipper
Alex Andrews (USGS Western Region BRD) - Field Assistant

Location:

Alaska

Boundaries
North: 58.68292 South: 58.40294 West: -136.242 East: -135.86899

Platform(s):


Tamnik

Publications

Cochrane, G.R., Carlson, P. R., Boyle, M. E., Gabel, G. L., and Hooge, P. N., 2000, Cruise report, M/V Tamnik cruise T-1-98-GB: physical characteristics of Dungeness crab and halibut habitats in Whidbey Passage, Alaska, August 19 through September 1, 1998, Glacier Bay, Alaska: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-032, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/0032/.

Schreppel, H.A., Degnan, C.H, Dadisman, S.V., and Metzger, D.R., 2013, Archive of U.S. Geological Survey Selected Single-Beam Bathymetry Datasets, 1969â2000: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 757, http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/757/.

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