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Field Activity Details for field activity 2000-014-FA

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Other ID: IB M-14-00-SR

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): William Schwab

Affiliate Investigator(s): Bob Morton - USGS, St. Pete

Information Specialist(s): Jane Denny

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sidescan, Seismics: Boomer, Sonar: Interferometric

Scientific Purpose/Goals: High-resolution mapping of inner shelf.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Charleston, SC

End Port/Location: Charleston, SC

Start Date: 2000-03-13

End Date: 2000-03-30

Equipment Used: GeoPulse uniboom, Single channel hydrophone, SIS1000 Sidescan sonar, SIS1000 Chirp Sonar, SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz, GPS (wh), Echosounder

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Weather was bad. Limited data collection.

Staff: William Danforth, Thomas O'Brien, William Schwab, Charles Worley

Affiliate Staff:
Shawn Dadisman (USGS - data processing)
Bob Morton (USGS - co-PI); Paul Byham (Submetrix Rep.)

Notes: Original Center People field contained: Bill Schwab (PI), Bill Danforth (Data Processor), Tom O'Brien (Electronics Technician), Chuck Worley (Electronics Technician), Shawn Dadisman (data processing), Bob Morton (co-PI).
Project = SC Coastal Erosion, SC Coastal Erosion
Information from Foghorn: Geophysics Acquisition van, Data Processing van, GeoPulse boomer, SIS-1000 sea floor mapper, Fathometer;
Also: Submetrix Interferometric Sidescan Sonar System

Location:

central South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 33.86078623 South: 32.56379028 West: -79.85478353 East: -78.46984863

Platform(s):

photo of Megan T Miller
Megan T Miller

Publications

Dadisman, S.V., Hill, J.C., Schwab, W.C., 2001, Archive of boomer subbottom data collected during USGS cruise MGNM 00014, central South Carolina, 13-30 March 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-463, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr00463.

Baldwin, W.E., Denny, J.F., Schwab, W.C., Gayes, P.T., Morton, R., and Driscoll, N.W., 2007, Geologic framework studies of South Carolina’s Long Bay from Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay, 1999–2003: Geospatial Data Release: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1346, DVD-ROM, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051346.

Baldwin, W.E., Morton, R.A., Denny, J.F., Dadisman, S.V., Schwab, W.C., Gayes, P.T., and Driscoll, N.W., 2004, Maps showing the stratigraphic framework of South Carolina's Long Bay from Little River to Winyah Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1013, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041013.

Barnhardt, W.A. (ed.), 2009, Coastal change along the shore of northeastern South Carolina—the South Carolina coastal erosion study: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1339, 77 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/cir1339.

Dadisman, S.V., Hill, J.C., and Schwab, W.C., 2000, Archive of boomer subbottom data collected during USGS cruise MGNM 00014, central South Carolina, 13-30 March 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-463, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr00463.

Dadisman, S.V., Hill, J.C., and Schwab, W.C., 2000, Archive of Datasonics SIS-1000 chirp subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise MGNM 00014, central South Carolina, 13-30 March 2000: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2000-462, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr00462.

Denny, J.F., Baldwin, W.E., Schwab, W.C., Gayes, P.T., Morton, R., and Driscoll, N.W., 2007, Morphology and texture of modern sediments on the inner shelf of South Carolina's Long Bay from Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1345, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051345.

Denny, J.F., Schwab, W.C., Baldwin, W.E., Barnhardt, W.A., Gayes, P.T., Morton, R.A., Warner, J.C., Driscoll, N.W., and Voulgaris, G., 2013, Holocene sediment distribution on the Long Bay Inner Continental Shelf, between Little River Inlet to Winyah Bay-- Implications to the regional sediment budget and shoreline response: Continental Shelf Research, vol. 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2013.02.004.

Barnhardt, W.A. (ed.), 2009, Coastal change along the shore of northeastern South Carolina—the South Carolina coastal erosion study: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2008-1206, URL: https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20081206.

Portals/Viewers

FAN 2000-014-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=2000-014-FA.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GeoPulse uniboom --- Boomer
Single channel hydrophone --- Air Gun / Water Gun
Boomer
Bubble Gun
Sparker
Sub Bottom Profiler
Boomer seismic data
SIS1000 Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
Sidescan mosaic
SIS1000 Chirp Sonar --- Sub Bottom Profiler
Chirp seismic data
2000-014-FA-SE-001 (Lines 1-23 Chirp Subbottom Data - 22 SEG-Y data files.)
2000-014-FA-SE-002 (Lines 24-52 Chirp Subbottom Data - 28 SEG-Y data files.)
2000-014-FA-SE-003 (Lines 53-78 Chirp Subbottom Data - 26 SEG-Y data files.)
2000-014-FA-SE-006 (Lines 24-52 Scanned Profiles - Includes 28 scanned files in GIF format. )
2000-014-FA-SE-007 (Lines 53-78 Scanned Profiles - Includes 26 scanned files in GIF format. )
2000-014-FA-SE-004 (Lines 79-95 Chirp Subbottom Data - 17 SEG-Y data files.)
2000-014-FA-SE-005 (Lines 1-23 Scanned Profiles - Includes 22 scanned files in GIF format. )
2000-014-FA-SE-008 (Lines 79-95 Scanned Profiles - Includes 17 scanned files in GIF format. )
2000-014-FA-SE-009 (1-replacement dvd for 4 unreadable cd's of (seg-y)Chirp Subbottom data.)
SEA SWATHplus-M 234 kHz --- Interferometric
Bathymetry GIS data
GPS (wh) --- Navigation
2000-014-FA-LN-001 (Navigation data)
Echosounder --- Single Beam

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