Field Activity 1991-022-FA

Identifier 1991-022-FA
Alternate names VERE91-1
Purpose To obtain and quantitatively interpret the sedimentary record of changing climate and limnology in Lake Baikal.
Location Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, Asia;
Summary Benthos gravity cores: 29; box cores: 19; large-diameter piston cores: 36; seismic reflection profiles: 2060 km.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Steve Colman - Co-Ch. Sci.; Susan Carter - geologist; Dave Nichols - seismic specialist; Rick Rendigs - geologist. Project = Global Change Sratigraphy, Global Change Sratigraphy Information from Foghorn: Seismic reflection 3.5 kHz, water gun, HP 8-track analog recorder, piston corer (10 cm), benthos gravity corer, box corer;
Platform
Vereshchagin
Length 43.6 meters.
Itinerary
Start Listvyanka, Siberia, USSR 1991-07-13
End Listvyanka, Siberia, USSR 1991-08-05
Days in the field 23
Bounds
West 102.5
East 110
North 56
South 51

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Stephen Colman
Crew members
Richard R Rendigs
Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols
Scientist, Staff
Carter, Susan
Scientist, Staff
Stephen Colman
Scientist, Staff
Affiliate principal Paul Hearn - USGS-Reston; E. Karabanov - Limnological Institute, Irkutsk
Affiliate staff Paul Hearn - Co-Ch. Sci., USGS-Reston; Edward Callender - geochemist, USGS-WRD-Reston; Hans Nelson - geologist, USGS-PMG-MP; Kevin O'Toole - marine tech., USGS-PMG-MP; James Broda - research assoc., WHOI; Anne Felton - geologist, BMR Australia; John King - professor, URI; Cynthia Pilskaln - MBARI; E. B. Karabanov - LI Siberia; A. Bardardinov - LI Siberia; L. Granina - LI Siberia; A. Gvozdkov - IG Siberia; E. Seleznova - USSR Ministry of Geology

Data types and categories

Data category: Biological Field Study, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics
Data type: Experiments (biological), Navigation, Biology, Geology, Air Gun / Water Gun, Sub Bottom Profiler

Documents: Notes and log books

Name Description
Cruise report Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment and equipment performance, cruise summary and conclusions, trackmap, table of core locations.
Data inventory Cruise curator's inventory of field data, indicating type, medium, and quantity.
Navigation log Navigation log containing line list, line number, date, time, course, speed, latitude, longitude, start and end of lines and other comments and observations.

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
3.5 kHz Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Water gun (wh) Air Gun / Water Gun (no data reported)
Gravity corer Geology (no data reported)
Box corer Biology, Geology (no data reported)
Magellan PRO 1000 GPS Navigation 1
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler 4
Piston corer Geology (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
1991-022-FA-LN-001 Magellan PRO 1000 GPS Navigation trackline plot for field activity 91022 Nancy K. Soderberg
1991-022-FA-SE-001 Single channel hydrophone Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( H2O) for lines Nancy K. Soderberg
1991-022-FA-SE-002 Single channel hydrophone microfilm of Nancy K. Soderberg
1991-022-FA-SE-003 Single channel hydrophone analog tape of seismic data Nancy K. Soderberg
Water gun data Single channel hydrophone Linda P McCarthy

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity