| Identifier | 2011-001-FA | ||||||||
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| Purpose | Subbottom imaging shallow offshore Beaufort Sea, water column imaging, seafloor imaging, coring, and real-time water sampling with CRDS. | ||||||||
| Location | offshore shallow Beaufort Sea, Alaska, United States, North America, Arctic Ocean; | ||||||||
| Summary | Acquired 178 km of Chirp, sparker, and Swath data and 110 km of geochemical data, including CH4 and CO2 concentrations, salinity/water temp, and weather data | ||||||||
| Info derived | Sea floor map;Bathymetric maps;Morphology; | ||||||||
| Comments | Cruise dates ~1 through 12 August, with one full port day for equip changeover on 8 August Project = Natural Gas Hydrates/DOE, | ||||||||
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384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
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| Principal investigators | Carolyn Ruppel | ||||||
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| Affiliate staff | John Kessler, TAMU Casey Moore, Stanford student (WHOI Summer Student Fellow) Katy Sparrow, TAMU |
| Data category: | Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Seismics, Sonar, Visual Identification |
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| Data type: | Conductivity, Methane, Temperature, Navigation, Geology, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler, Interferometric, Multibeam, Single Beam, Species ID |
| Name | Description |
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| Protected Species Log | Marine Mammal Observer report, polar bear sighting logs. |
| Equipment | Usage description | Data types | Datasets |
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| YSI multiparameter sonde | Conductivity, Dissolved Oxygen, ORP, pH, Temperature | (no data reported) | |
| HYPACK | Navigation | (no data reported) | |
| 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) | |
| Visual Mammal ID | Species ID | 1 | |
| SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz | Interferometric | (no data reported) | |
| Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) | CO2, Methane, Experiments (geochemical), Surveys (geochemical), Chemistry | (no data reported) | |
| Sparker | Sparker | (no data reported) | |
| Humminbird fishfinder | Single Beam | (no data reported) | |
| Alpine Vibracorer | Geology | (no data reported) |
| Dataset name | Equipment | Description | Dataset contact |
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| 2011-001-FA-NL-001 | Visual Mammal ID | Marine Mammal Observer report Polar Bear logs Permits obtained | Carolyn Ruppel |
