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

Field Activity W681NC

Identifier W681NC
Alternate names W-6-81-NC,CODE_1-2
Description Chief Scientist: Dave Cacchione. Geophysical data (sidescansonar, bathymetry, CTDmeter, boxcore) of field activity W-6-81-NC in Northern California from 06/09/1981 to 06/13/1981
Location Northern California
Comments Staff information imported from InfoBank Dave Cacchione (USGS Western Region) - Chief Scientist
Platform
Wecoma
Length: 185 feet (56.4 m); Beam: 33 feet (10.1 m).
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 1981-06-09
End (port not specified) 1981-06-13
Bounds
West -123.424
East -123.4085
North 38.6585
South 38.63183
Activity Geophysical

Personnel

Principal investigators Cacchione, Dave
Crew members

Data types and categories

Data category: Environmental Data, Location-Elevation, Sampling, Sonar
Data type: CTD, Navigation, Biology, Geology, Sidescan, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
sidescansonar Sidescan (no data reported)
bathymetry Single Beam (no data reported)
CTD Surveys (geochemical), Experiments (geochemical), CTD (no data reported)
navigation Navigation 2
boxcore Biology, Geology 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Best file with nav in ArcInfo E00 format navigation David A Cacchione
Integrated navigation (SINS) data w-6-81-nc.050 navigation Provisional best file David A Cacchione
Boxcore locations boxcore David A Cacchione

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity