Field Activity H609AR

Identifier H609AR
Alternate names HLY0905
Also known as H-6-09-AR, 2009-006-FA, 09006, H0609AR, H-06-09-AR
Purpose Multibeam and Chirp mapping of the sea floor of potential U.S. extended continental shelf in the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska.
Location Arctic Ocean
Info derived Notes/logs;Bathymetry;Sonar;CTD and other measurements to estimate velocity of sound in the water column
Comments FACS ID created from InfoBank website 07/03/2012, update: Cruise report for Healy 2009 can be found at these two locations - http://ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/Mayer 2009 cruise report HE0905.pdf and http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/curator/data/healy/hly0905/HE0905cruisereport.pdf. All ECS cruises are cataloged with extensive statistics and metadata at this NGDC ECS portal - http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/ecs/cruises.html. General descriptive material and blogs (click on "Missions" to see list of cruises conducted with links to more info) are at - http://continentalshelf.gov. This Coast Guard site includes outreach type material from the ship - http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/cgchealy/aws09/. 08/03/2009, report note: Cruise is currently devoted 100 % to two-icebreaker work, but this could be reduced depending on planning to take place in January. There is also a slight chance that there could be dredging (possibly using a USGS dredge from MP). Cruise is currently devoted 100% to two-icebreaker work. 18. Report Date: 11:33 8/3/2009
Projects
Platform
Healy
Length 420 feet; beam 82 feet; draft 29 feet.
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Barrow, AK 2009-08-07
End Barrow, AK 2009-09-16
Bounds
West -161.71875
East -125.4296875
North 81.17954633
South 70.99596114

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Beikman, Helen
Crew members
Affiliate principal Debbie Hutchinson, David Mosher

Data types and categories

Data category: Sampling
Data type: Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
dredge Geology (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity