Field Activity 1988-013-FA

Identifier 1988-013-FA
Alternate names PLSTAR-1; P-1-88-AR
Purpose To gather digital seismic reflection and refraction data and to ground truth the Chuckchi Borderland area.
Location Chukchi Sea, Alaska, United States, North America, Arctic Ocean;
Comments All data archived by Pacific Marine Geology division. Information from Foghorn: DFS V, Airguns, Sonobuoys, SUS Charges, Piston core, gravity core, box core;
Platform
Polar Star
Length: 399 ft (122 m) Beam: 83 ft 6 in (25.45).
Itinerary
Start Nome, AK 1988-08-30
End Barrows, AK 1988-09-29
Days in the field 28
Bounds
West -168.75
East -153.73122405
North 75.19327895
South 66.82267772

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators David R Nichols
Crew members
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Art Grantz, PMG
Affiliate staff PMG: Art Grantz, Larry Phillips, Erk Reimeitz, Jim Vaughan, John Gann, Jon Childs, Kevin O'Toole, Jeff Stampher, Bill La Fleur, Dave Dinter, Pat Hart; Alaska Branch: Mike Mullen, Steve May; WHOI: Alan Gagnon

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics, Sonar, Biological Field Study, Sampling, Location-Elevation
Data type: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan, Experiments (biological), Biology, Geology, Navigation

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Sparse Chief Scientist's report including personnel, equipment, and a sentence describing the purpose.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Piston corer Geology (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
Edo Western Sidescan and 2.5 kHz sub-bottom system Sub Bottom Profiler, Sidescan (no data reported)
Box corer Biology, Geology (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Loran-C Navigation 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1988-013-FA-LN-001 Loran-C Navigation data Nancy K. Soderberg

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity