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

Field Activity H310AR

Identifier H310AR
Alternate names 2010-018-FA
Purpose Two-icebreaker US-Canada experiment to identify the outer limits of the extended continental shelf of each nation in the western Arctic Ocean
Location Western Arctic Ocean
Summary Collected 12 kHz Bathymetry (Simrad EM122) to identify the 2500 meter contour on widely spaced tracklines. Multichannel seismic profiles were collected aboard the Louis St Laurent to map sediment thicknesses.
Info derived Bathymetric maps;Sea floor map; Bathymetric maps; Sediment thickness maps
Comments Samples reside in Menlo Park.
Projects
Platform
Healy
Length 420 feet; beam 82 feet; draft 29 feet.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Dutch Harbor, AK 2010-08-03
End Barrow, AK 2010-09-05
Bounds
West -179.824
East -127.01171875
North 75.27541261
South 51.71822912

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Brian D Edwards
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Brian D Edwards
Specialist, Information
Danforth, Bill
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Geology, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
gravitycore Geology (no data reported)
pistoncore Geology (no data reported)
triggercore Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity