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Field Activity Details for field activity 1996-005-FA

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Other ID: none

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 - Coastal Carolina U.; Mark Hansen - USGS, St.Pete.

Information Specialist(s): William Danforth

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Survey inner shelf/shoreface off Folly Island and Stono Inlet using high-resolution sidesan sonar techniques.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Charleston, SC

End Port/Location: Charleston, SC

Start Date: 1996-06-01

End Date: 1996-06-14

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

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: William Danforth, David Nichols, David Twichell

Affiliate Staff:
Paul Gayes - Coastal Carolina University

Notes:
Project = South Carolina Coastal Erosion, South Carolina Coastal Erosion

Location:

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

Boundaries
North: 32.74557419 South: 32.56263253 West: -80.01952527 East: -79.75615562

Platform(s):

photo of Coastal II
Coastal II

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.

Miller, T.L., Morton, R.A., and Sallenger, A.H., 2005, The national assessment of shoreline change; a GIS compilation of vector shorelines and associated shoreline change data for the U.S. southeast Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2005-1326, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20051326.

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.

Williams, G.F., Schwab, W.C., and Danforth, W.W., 1999, Archive of the ISIS sidescan sonar and DGPS navigation field data collected on USGS Cruise 96005, 1-14 June, 1996; 61 lines: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-798, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98798.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
DGPS --- Navigation
1996-005-FA-LN-001-01 (Processed navigation)
Klein 531 sidescan --- Sidescan
1996-005-FA-SO-001 (Sidescan sonar data)
ISIS --- Sidescan
ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder --- Single Beam

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