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Field Activity Details for field activity 1996-039-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): Rob Thieler; Orrin Pilkey - Duke University

Information Specialist(s): William Schwab

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Assess changes to shoreface/inner shelf due to Hurricane Bertha. Resurveyed study area using high-resolution sidescan sonar.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Wrightsville Beach, NC

End Port/Location: Wrightsville Beach, NC

Start Date: 1996-07-29

End Date: 1996-08-03

Equipment Used: Klein 400 sidescan sonar, Echosounder, DGPS, Edgetech Sidescan sonar

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Reconnaissance sidescan indicates there were only minor changes to nearshore sediment distribution.

Staff: Barry Irwin, Kenneth F. Parolski

Affiliate Staff:
Rob Thieler - Duke

Notes:
Project = Wrightsville Beach Shoreface, Wrightsville Beach Shoreface

Location:

Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 34.33436 South: 33.78828 West: -78.2666 East: -77.2998

Platform(s):


Elusive

Publications

Portals/Viewers

Documents associated with this activity

Title Survey Equipment Description
Sidescan log Edgetech Sidescan sonar Sidescan sonar log containing lines numbers, start and end times, equipment configuration and performance, data acquisition notes

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Klein 400 sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
Echosounder --- Single Beam
DGPS --- Navigation
Edgetech Sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
1996-039-FA-SO-001 ( Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines )
1996-039-FA-SO-003 (CD ROM disk of INDEX, RAW QMIPS LEGG1, 1-4, RAW QMIPS L5-7,9-14, RAW QMIPS L15-17,19-21, RAW QMIPS L22-23, RAW QMIPS L24-26, RAW QMIPS L27,ST1-ST3, RAW QMIPS LST4-ST10, )
1996-039-FA-SO-002 (Digital tape(s) of SSS-EG&G LINE 1-2, SSS-EG&G LINE 3, SSS-KLEIN LINE 5A-7, SSS-KLEIN LINE 8-18, SSS-KLEIN LINE 19,ST1-ST7, SSS-KLEIN LINE ST8-ST10, SSS-EG&G LINE 20-23, SSS-EG&G LINE 24, SSS-EG&G LINE 25-27, SSS DF-1000 L1-2, SSS DF-1000 L3-5, SSS KLEIN L5-7, SSS KLEIN L9-18, SSS KLEIN L19, STL1-STL7, SSS KLEIN LSTL8-STL10, SSS KLEIN L20-23, SSS KLEIN L24, SSS KLEIN L25-29, )

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