Other ID: VERE91-1
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): Stephen Colman
Affiliate Investigator(s): Paul Hearn - USGS-Reston; E. Karabanov - Limnological Institute, Irkutsk
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Biological Field Study: Experiments (biological), Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Biology, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To obtain and quantitatively interpret the sedimentary record of changing climate and limnology in Lake Baikal.
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Listvyanka, Siberia, USSR
End Port/Location: Listvyanka, Siberia, USSR
Start Date: 1991-07-13
End Date: 1991-08-05
Equipment Used: 3.5 kHz, Water gun (wh), Gravity corer, Box corer, Magellan PRO 1000 GPS, Single channel hydrophone, Piston corer
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Benthos gravity cores: 29; box cores: 19; large-diameter piston cores: 36; seismic reflection profiles: 2060 km.
Staff: Susan Carter, Stephen Colman, David Nichols, Richard Rendigs
Affiliate Staff:
Paul Hearn - Co-Ch. Sci.
USGS-Reston; Edward Callender - geochemist
USGS-WRD-Reston; Hans Nelson - geologist
USGS-PMG-MP; Kevin O'Toole - marine tech.
USGS-PMG-MP; James Broda - research assoc.
WHOI; Anne Felton - geologist
BMR Australia; John King - professor
URI; Cynthia Pilskaln - MBARI; E. B. Karabanov - LI Siberia; A. Bardardinov - LI Siberia; L. Granina - LI Siberia; A. Gvozdkov - IG Siberia; E. Seleznova - USSR Ministry of Geology
Notes: Original Center People field contained: Steve Colman - Co-Ch. Sci.; Susan Carter - geologist; Dave Nichols - seismic specialist; Rick Rendigs - geologist.
Project = Global Change Sratigraphy, Global Change Sratigraphy
Information from Foghorn: Seismic reflection 3.5 kHz, water gun, HP 8-track analog recorder, piston corer (10 cm), benthos gravity corer, box corer;
Location:
Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, Asia;
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 56 | South: 51 | West: 102.5 | East: 110 |
Platform(s):
 Vereshchagin |
FAN 1991-022-FA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at https://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=1991-022-FA.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise report | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Chief Scientist's cruise report including personnel, purpose, equipment and equipment performance, cruise summary and conclusions, trackmap, table of core locations. |
| Data inventory | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Cruise curator's inventory of field data, indicating type, medium, and quantity. |
| Navigation log | (document not focused on specific equipment) | Navigation log containing line list, line number, date, time, course, speed, latitude, longitude, start and end of lines and other comments and observations. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 kHz | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | |
| Water gun (wh) | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun | |
| Gravity corer | --- | Geology | |
| Box corer | --- | Biology Geology | |
| Magellan PRO 1000 GPS | --- | Navigation | 1991-022-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 91022) |
| Single channel hydrophone | --- | Air Gun / Water Gun Boomer Bubble Gun Sparker Sub Bottom Profiler | 1991-022-FA-SE-003 (analog tape of seismic data) Water gun data 1991-022-FA-SE-002 (microfilm of ) 1991-022-FA-SE-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( H2O) for lines ) |
| Piston corer | --- | Geology |
