Field Activity 2016-656-FA

Identifier 2016-656-FA
Purpose Mapping Queen Charlotte/Fairweather Fault zone to constrain earthquake hazards.
Location Gulf of Alaska
Summary MCS data submitted to FAD 2/6/2017 by Alicia Balster-gee
Info derived high-resolution multichannel seismic reflection profiles
Comments 16 days at sea. The rest of the dates are for mob and demob. Platform is the R/V Norseman.
Projects
Platform
Norseman_II
L.O.A. 115 ft. Beam 28 ft. Draft 13 ft. Decks 3 Gross Tonnage 196 Propulsion 850 hp Cat Diesel Speed 10 Knots Endurance 90+ Days Range 10,000 miles
Vehicles
None
Itinerary
Start Seward, AK 2016-08-07
End Seward, AK 2016-08-26
Days in the field 21
Bounds
West -147.794
East -133.78027201
North 60.73911751
South 54.63955538
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
2885 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA95060
(831) 460-7401
Principal investigators Daniel Brothers
Crew members
Jackson E Currie
Scientist, Staff
Daniel Brothers
Scientist, Staff
Amy East
Scientist, Staff
Alicia F Balster-gee
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Alicia F Balster-gee
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Amy East, USGS PCMSC Nathan Miller, USGS WHSC Dan Ebuna, UC Santa Cruz

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Yonav Navigation (no data reported)
Other Unknown, Multichannel, Boomer, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sparker, Bubble Gun, Air Gun / Water Gun, Ocean Bottom Seismometer, Sonobuoy (no data reported)
Multichannel Multichannel 1
Sparker Sparker (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Multichannel sparker seismic-reflection data between Icy Point and Dixon Entrance, Gulf of Alaska from 2016-08-07 to 2016-08-26 Multichannel This data release contains high-resolution multichannel seismic (MCS) reflection data collected in August of 2016 along the southeast Alaska continental margin. Structure perpendicular MCS profiles were collected along the Queen Charlotte-Fairweather fault. The data were collected aboard the R/V Norseman using a Delta sparker sound source and recorded on a 64-channel digital streamer. Subbottom acoustic penetration spans up to several hundreds of meters, and is variable by location. Alicia F Balster-gee

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity