1996-005-FA (CMHRP activity #1356)

Field Activity 1996-005-FA

Identifier

1996-005-FA

Purpose

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

Location

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

Comments

Project = South Carolina Coastal Erosion, South Carolina Coastal Erosion

URL

http://coastalmap.marine.usgs.gov/FlexWeb/national/ShoreLC/

http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2009/12/research2.html

Platform

Coastal II

Length: 43 feet

Itinerary

Start	Charleston, SC	1996-06-01
End	Charleston, SC	1996-06-14
Days in the field	8

Bounds

West	-80.01952527
East	-79.75615562
North	32.74557419
South	32.56263253

Personnel

Organization

USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center(WHCMSC)

384 Woods Hole Road

Quissett Campus

Woods Hole, MA02543-1598

(508) 548-8700

Principal investigators

William C Schwab

Crew members

William W Danforth	Scientist, Staff
David C Twichell	Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

William W Danforth

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

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

Affiliate staff

Paul Gayes - Coastal Carolina University

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sonar
Data type:	Navigation, Sidescan, Single Beam

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
DGPS	Navigation	1
Klein 531 sidescan	Sidescan	2
ISIS	Sidescan	(no data reported)
ODOM 200 kHz depth recorder	Single Beam	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1996-005-FA-LN-001-01	DGPS	Processed navigation	Nancy K. Soderberg
1996-005-FA-SO-001	Klein 531 sidescan	Sidescan sonar data	William W Danforth
of98-798_sidescan	Klein 531 sidescan	USGS Cruise 96005 Sidescan Sonar Data Files in USGS Open-File Report 98-798: Archive of the ISIS Sidescan Sonar and DGPS Navigation Field Data Collected on USGS Cruise 96005 1-14 June, 1996	Brian Buczkowski