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Field Activity Details for field activity 1999-019-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jeffrey List

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Christopher F. Polloni

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Scheduled bi-weekly shoreline survey on Cape Cod.

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

End Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA

Start Date: 1999-05-10

End Date: 1999-05-10

Equipment Used: Swash II ATV, Visual navigation

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Barry Irwin, Jeffrey List

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:
Project = Shoreline Change Measurements with SWASH, Shoreline Change Measurements with SWASH

Location:

Cape Cod National Seashore, Race Point, Provincetown, Nauset Inlet, Eastham, Massachusetts, United States, North America, North Atlantic;

Boundaries
North: 42.15 South: 41.8 West: -70.25 East: -70

Platform(s):

photo of Swash-II
Swash-II

Publications

Farris, A.S., Weber, K.M., and List, J.H., 2020, Mean high water shorelines for the Outer Cape of Massachusetts from Nauset Inlet to Race Point (1998-2005): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9GWL52F.

Farris, A.S., and List, Jeffrey H., 2007, Shoreline change as a proxy for subaerial beach volume change: Journal of Coastal Research, v. 23 no. 3, doi: 10.2112/05-0442.1.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Swash II ATV --- Profiles
Transects
Visual navigation --- Navigation

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