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Field Activity Details for field activity 1995-009-FA

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Other ID: CSTL 95009

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): William Schwab

Affiliate Investigator(s): Paul Gayes - CCU

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Sidescan, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Image shoreface and inner shelf off Folly Beach, South Carolina.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Isle of Palms, SC

End Port/Location: Isle of Palms, SC

Start Date: 1995-08-01

End Date: 1995-08-14

Equipment Used: ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder, DGPS, Klein 531 sidescan, 12 kHz

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: William Danforth, Barry Irwin, David Nichols, William Schwab

Affiliate Staff:
Paul Gayes - CCU

Notes: Project = South Carolina Coastal Erosion, South Carolina Coastal Erosion
Information updated by VAC based on information in OFR97-473.

Location:

Folly Beach, South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 32.69935 South: 32.61509 West: -79.9882 East: -79.80331

Platform(s):

photo of MS Coastal
MS Coastal

Publications

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.

Danforth, W.W., Bemis, B., Schwab, W.C., and Paskevich, V.F., 1997, Archive of the ISIS sidescan sonar and DGPS navigation field data collected on USGS Cruise 95009, 1-14 August, 1995: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 97-473, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr97473.

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.

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Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Cruise report (document not focused on specific equipment) Chief Scientist's report including personnel, purpose, equipment, tabulated information, seismic line list, trackmap.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder --- Single Beam
DGPS --- Navigation
1995-009-FA-LN-001 (Navigation trackline plot for field activity 95009)
1995-009-FA-LN-002-01 (Navigation data)
Klein 531 sidescan --- Sidescan
1995-009-FA-SO-001 (Digital tape(s) of SSS-KLEIN )
1995-009-FA-SO-001-01 (Sidescan sonar data)
12 kHz --- Single Beam

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