1996-001-FA (CMHRP activity #1352)

Field Activity 1996-001-FA

Identifier

1996-001-FA

Alternate names

EW-9601A

Purpose

Offshore/onshore seismic experiment, comprising seismic measurements along two profiles across central South Island and one profile across the eastern coast and south eastern part of South Island.

Location

South Island, New Zealand, South Pacific;

Comments

Project = South Island GeopHysical Transect (SIGHT), South Island GeopHysical Transect (SIGHT)

URL

http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/obs/nz96.html

Platform

Maurice Ewing

Length 239 feet; beam 46 feet.

Itinerary

Start	Lyttleton, New Zealand	1996-02-08
End	Port Chalmers, New Zealand	1996-03-07
Days in the field	28

Bounds

West	167
East	175
North	-41
South	-46

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Crew members

Gregory K Miller

Scientist, Staff

Affiliate principal

Steven W. Holbrook - WHOI; Fred J. Davey - IGNS

Affiliate staff

W. Steven Holbrook (WHOI), Fred J. Davey (IGNS), James Dolan (WHOI), F. Beecher Wooding (WHOI); David DuBois, Dan Lizarralde, Jun Korenaga, Robert Busby, David Wilson, Cris Henstock, Joseph N. Sennett, William J. Robinson, Charles W. Donaldson, John G. DiBernardo, Ropate Maiwiriwiri, Paul O. Olsgaard, Matthew J. Cheslik

Data types and categories

Data category:	Imagery, Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type:	Photo, Navigation, Multichannel, Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
Ocean Bottom Seismometer	Ocean Bottom Seismometer	1
Multichannel seismics	Multichannel	(no data reported)
35 mm camera	Photo	1
GPS (wh)	Navigation	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1996-001-FA-SE-001	Ocean Bottom Seismometer	Digital tape(s) of OBS-RAW-DEPLY1, OBS-RAW-DEPLY2, OBS-RAW-DEPLY3, OBS-SEGY L12W, OBS-SEGY L1W, OBS-SEGY L2W, OBS-SEGY L23W, OBS-SEGY L3W, OBS-SEGY L4E, OBS-SEGY L41E, OBS-SEGY L1E, OBS-SEGY L12E, OBS-SEGY L2E, OBS-SEGY L25E, OBS-SEGY L5E, OBS-SEGY L6E,	Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-001-FA-PH-001	35 mm camera	Deck photos of field activity operations	Nancy K. Soderberg