Field Activity 2019-654-FA

Identifier 2019-654-FA
Alternate names 2019-024-FA (WHCMSC)
Purpose Characterize Quaternary deformation and sediment dynamics along the central and northern Cascadia margin
Location Northern and Central Cascadia from Mendocino Triple Junction to offshore Olympic Peninsula
Summary Chirp and seismic data collected.
Info derived seismic imagery
Comments This is a joint field activity with the Woods Hole USGS office. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-024-FA.
Projects
Platform
R/V Rachel Carson
Length: 72 feet; Beam: 26 feet.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Seattle, WA 2019-07-13
End Astoria, OR 2019-08-12
Days in the field 20
Bounds
West -127.35351563
East -124.36523438
North 48.45835188
South 42.03297433

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Janet Tilden Watt
Crew members
(not identified)
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Alicia F Balster-gee
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Nathaniel Miller, USGS, Woods Hole Emily Roland, University of Washington

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics
Data type: Navigation, Multichannel, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Navigation (no data reported)
Spectral Analyzer Multichannel (no data reported)
Multichannel Multichannel 1
512 chirp-source Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
512 chirp Sub Bottom Profiler 1
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)
single channel streamer Sparker (no data reported)

Datasets


Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
High-resolution multichannel sparker seismic-reflection data acquired along the Cascadia margin during USGS field activity 2019-024-FA Multichannel High-resolution multichannel sparker seismic (MCS) data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the University of Washington (UW) in the summer of 2019 along the Cascadia submarine forearc offshore Oregon and Washington. Alicia F Balster-gee
Chirp sub-bottom data acquired along the Cascadia margin during USGS field activity 2019-024-FA 512 chirp Chirp sub-bottom data were collected by the U.S. Geological Survey in collaboration with the University of Washington (UW) in the summer of 2019 along the Cascadia submarine forearc offshore Oregon and Washington. Alicia F Balster-gee

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity