Woods Hole Science Center

Summary Information for Field Activity 1994-029-FA

Area of Operations: Hammonasset Beach State Park, central Long Island Sound, Connecticut, United States, North America, North Atlantic

Dates: June 10, 1994 to June 16, 1994

Chief scientist: Larry Poppe

Ralph Lewis - LISRC

Objectives: 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.

Type of Activity: Sea floor mapping;Sea floor mapping

Information to be derived: surficial sediment textural distribution

Summary:

Contact: Larry Poppe (lpoppe@usgs.gov)

InfoBank: uses the identifier A-1-94-LI. Visit this site for more information.

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Platform Info:

ASTERIAS

Publications resulting from these data

Poppe, Lawrence J., and Polloni, Chris, eds.,1998, Long Island Sound environmental studies: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-502, CD-ROM. (Also available at http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of98-502/fpage.htm)

Data Types and Locations:

Navigation

Logs

Chief Scientist's report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, seismic and sidescan sonar line lists, trackmaps, and documentation of signal interference in sidescan sonar record.

Cruise Curator's field data inventory.

DGPS navigation log indicating line start and ends, latitude and longitude, course and speed.

3.5 kHz and sidescan sonar log with starts and ends of lines.

Q-MIPS log indicating line number, file name, and start and end of lines.

Seismics

Sonar

Side scan sonar mosaics

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