1997-009-FA (CMHRP activity #1404)

Field Activity 1997-009-FA

Identifier

1997-009-FA

Purpose

Image nearshore areas of Charleston (Isle of Palms, Folly Beach, etc.) and collect GeoPulse boomer and 3.5 kHz sub-bottom profiles.

Location

Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, South Carolina, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Comments

These data will be combined with similar data collected by J. Kindinger (USGS, St. Pete). Eric Haase will replace Bill Danforth in the field mid-way through the cruise. Original Center People field contained: Bill Schwab - PI, Dave Nichols - Marine Tech, Bill Danforth - Data Processing, Eric Haase - Data Processing. Project = South Carolina Coastal Erosion, South Carolina Coastal Erosion

URL

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

Platform

Coastal II

Length: 43 feet

Itinerary

Start	Charleston, SC	1997-02-24
End	Charleston, SC	1997-03-08
Days in the field	6

Bounds

West	-79.94926748
East	-79.69108211
North	32.79663838
South	32.62363331

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
William C Schwab	Scientist, Staff
David R Nichols	Scientist, Staff
Haase, Eric	Scientist, Staff

Information specialist(s)

William W Danforth

Specialist, Information

Affiliate principal

Paul Gayes - Coastal Carolina U.

Affiliate staff

Paul Gayes - Coastal Carolina U. - Co-PI

Data types and categories

Data category:	Location-Elevation, Sonar, Seismics
Data type:	Boomer, Navigation, Sidescan, Single Beam, Sub Bottom Profiler

Documents: Notes and log books

Name	Description
Cruise log	Complete cruise log containing sidescan sonar log, Geopulse log, 3.5 kHz log, and YONAV navigation log.

Equipment used

Equipment	Data types	Datasets
3.5 kHz	Sub Bottom Profiler	1
GeoPulse uniboom	Boomer	(no data reported)
Single channel hydrophone	Air Gun / Water Gun, Boomer, Bubble Gun, Sparker, Sub Bottom Profiler	(no data reported)
DGPS	Navigation	1
Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar	Sidescan	1
ISIS	Sidescan	(no data reported)
Echosounder	Single Beam	(no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name	Equipment	Description	Dataset contact
1997-009-FA-SE-001	3.5 kHz	Collection of paper record displays of seismic data( 3.5K) for lines	Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-009-FA-LN-001-01	DGPS	Folly Beach and Isle of Palms navigation data.	Nancy K. Soderberg
1997-009-FA-SO-001-01	Edgetech DF-1000 sidescan sonar	Sidescan Data - Available in ISIS format.	Nancy K. Soderberg