Field Activity 1999-022-FA

Identifier 1999-022-FA
Purpose Deploy and recover ocean bottom seismometers as part of the SHIPS experiment to map the Seattle Fault and sedimentary basin under the Seattle urban area.
Location Seattle, Puget Sound, Washington, United States, North America, North Pacific;
Summary 7 of the 8 were successfully deployed and recovered. The 8th OBS would not release from the bottom and remains in Puget Sound.
Comments Original Center People field contained: Greg Miller - tech, Joe Newell - tech 9/13 to 9/17, Jeff Nealon - tech 9/22 to 9/25. Project = Dry SHIPS, Dry SHIPS
URL
Platform
S P Hayes
38 foot long aluminum workboat
Itinerary
Start Seattle, WA 1999-09-13
End Seattle, WA 1999-09-25
Days in the field 2
Bounds
West -122.4942
East -122.43667
North 47.66673
South 47.66558

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Uri Ten Brink
Crew members
Gregory K Miller
Scientist, Staff
Nealon, Jefferey
Scientist, Staff
Newell, Joseph S.
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Gregory K Miller
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Ocean Bottom Seismometer Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity