Field Activity 2010-001-FA

Identifier 2010-001-FA
Purpose Map shallow methane and methane seeps; constrain shallow lake stratigraphy at locations of cores acquired for the project in April 2010; infer deeper structure if possible.
Location Central/Eastern Alaskan North Slope, Alaska, United States, North America;
Summary Edgetech 424, boomer, and lake bottom sonar/water column images were collected from a small boat over the northern part of Lake Teshekpuk, including an area of previously identified shallow methane.
Comments Project = High-Latitude Climate-Hydrates Interactions - Dept. of Energy, High-Latitude Climate-Hydrates Interactions - Dept. of Energy
Platform
Saree
20-foot gas-powered open aluminum skiff
Itinerary
Start Lake Teshekpuk, Lake 21, North Slope, Alaska 2010-07-12
End Lake Teshekpuk, Lake 21, North Slope, Alaska 2010-07-19
Days in the field 7
Bounds
West -154.116
East -152.90771
North 70.75072
South 70.61261

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Carolyn Ruppel
Crew members
Charles R Worley
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Carolyn Ruppel
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
EdgeTech 424 chirp sub-bottom profiler Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Humminbird fishfinder Single Beam (no data reported)
GPS (wh) Navigation (no data reported)
Boomer Boomer (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity