1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2020-626-FA

Identifier 2020-626-FA -- CANCELED
Also known as MGL2002
Purpose To record acoustic and seismicity data along the Queen Charlotte transform fault in southeastern Alaska.
Location Offshore southeastern Alaska, United States
Summary Survey was cancelled due to Covid-19 infection among ship crew.
Info derived Seismicity, acoustic recordings
Comments Survey, staffing, and equipment funded by NSF; travel for M. Walton funded partly by USGS. Data will be archived and managed by NSF facilities.
Projects
Platform
Marcus G. Langseth
235 feet long, 56-foot beam, 19.5 foot draft. Built in 1991.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Newport, OR 2020-08-14
End Ketchikan, AK 2020-08-24
Days in the field 11
Bounds
West -135.6
East -134.5
North 56.1
South 55.1

Personnel

Organization
National Science Foundation(NSF)
Principal investigators Maureen AL Walton
Crew members
Maureen AL Walton
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Maureen AL Walton
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Lindsay Worthington (University of New Mexico) Emily Roland (University of Washington) Mladen Nedimovic (Dalhousie University)

Data types and categories

Data category: Seismics
Data type: Ocean Bottom Seismometer

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Other Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy (no data reported)
seismograph Ocean Bottom Seismometer (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity