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Field Activity Details for field activity 1994-029-FA

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Other ID: AST94-1

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Lawrence Poppe

Affiliate Investigator(s): Ralph Lewis - LISRC

Information Specialist(s):

Data Type(s): Sonar: Sidescan, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Conduct continuous (detailed) and spaced-line 100 kHz sidescan surveys off Hammonasset Beach State Park to determine surficial sediment textural distribution related to active sedimentary processes and evaluate/relate habitats to benthic community.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Hammonasset, CT

End Port/Location: Hammonasset, CT

Start Date: 1994-06-10

End Date: 1994-06-16

Equipment Used: Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar, Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system, 3.5 kHz, DGPS, Loran-C

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Lawrence Poppe, Kenneth F. Parolski, Amy Harmon

Affiliate Staff:
Ralph Lewis
Mary Cohen - LISRS
Conn. Geological Survey
CT; Doug Wheat - Yale U.

Notes:

Location:

Hammonasset Beach State Park, central Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 41.5 South: 41 West: -73 East: -72.2

Platform(s):

photo of Asterias
Asterias

Publications

Poppe, L.J., Polloni, C., eds., 1998, Long Island Sound environmental studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report (98-502), https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr98502.

Portals/Viewers

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, cruise summary, tracksmaps, examples of sidescan sonar data, line acquisition information.
Data inventory (document not focused on specific equipment) Cruise Curator's field data inventory.
Navigation log DGPS DGPS navigation log indicating line start and ends, latitude and longitude, course and speed.
Geophysics log (document not focused on specific equipment) 3.5 kHz and sidescan sonar log with starts and ends of lines.
Q-Mips log Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar Q-MIPS log indicating line number, file name, and start and end of lines.

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Klein 595 100/500kHz sidescan sonar --- Sidescan
1994-029-FA-SO-001 (Collection of paper record displays of sidescan sonar data for lines )
1994-029-FA-SO-002 (microfilm of LONG ISLAND SOUND)
1994-029-FA-SO-003-01 (Side scan sonar mosaics)
1994-029-FA-SO-003 (Digital tape(s) of SSS 100K L1-4, SSS 100K L5-18,18A,1A,26, SSS 100K L19-25, SSS 100K L27-29,19A-25A, SSS 100K L30-32, SSS 100K L32, SSS 100K L26A-18B, SSS 500K L34, SSS DSP,TST,6,34, )
Q-MIPS sidescan sonar system --- Sidescan
3.5 kHz --- Sub Bottom Profiler
1994-029-FA-SE-001 (microfilm of LONG ISLAND SOUND)
DGPS --- Navigation
1994-029-FA-LN-001 (Floppy disk(s) containing NAV-DGPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS? BLANK DISK, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, NAV GPS, PROGRAM, WAYPOINTS, )
Loran-C --- Navigation

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