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# Summary Information for Field Activity 1994-031-FA

| **Area of Operations:** Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic

**Dates:** May 24, 1994 to May 30, 1994 

**Chief scientist:** Dave Twichell

**Objectives:** Sidescan survey LEO-15 area surveyed June 1991 to document storm changes to inner shelf setting.

**Type of Activity:**

**Information to be derived:**

**Summary:** This was a 2-ship multidisciplinary acoustical survey: CTDs during daylight, sidescan sonar at night.  Early sidescan  problems were solved with second QMIPS trigger box.  Entire area was successfully surveyed at 150-m spacing. 

**Contact:**Dave Twichell (dtwichell@usgs.gov)

**InfoBank:**uses the identifier H-1-94-NJ. Visit this site for more information.

**Related Links:**

 - **Download**94031.kml to view this field activity in Google Earth
**Platform Info:**CAPE HENLOPENPublications resulting from these data
Paskevich, Valerie, Twichell, David C., Badiey, Mohsen, Parolski, Ken, and Danforth, William,1996, Sidescan sonar and navigation field data collected during CAPE HENLOPEN 94-12 cruise (24-30 May, 1994): U.S. Geological Survey Open-File-Report 96-83, 2 CD-ROMs. (Also available at http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/pubs/of96-83/INTRO.HTM)
Data Types and Locations:**Navigation**
Processed navigation

Loran C navigation printout with 5 minute fixes, latitude, longitude, time delays, bearing, speed, etc.
**Logs**
Chief Scientist's report of ship movement, personnel, equipment and data acquisition notes, seismic and sidescan sonar line list, and trackmap.

Q-MIPS log containing line number, file names, start and end times and data acquisition notes.

Cruise log containing ship movement, line number, start and end times and data acquisition notes.
**Sonar**
Sidescan Sonar Data 

 

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