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Field Activity Details for field activity 10CNT05

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s):

Funding Program(s): National Assessment of Coastal Change Hazards(1) (MN000J7)

Data Source Information: CHARTS

Information Specialist(s): Kara Doran

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: LIDAR

Start Date: 2010-05-24

End Date: 2010-07-10

Equipment Used: Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR)

Information to be Derived:

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Notes:

Location:

MA, NH, ME, RI

Boundaries
North: 43.81846 South: 41.288632 West: -71.966 East: -69.6724

Platform(s):

Publications

Birchler, J.J., Dalyander, P.S., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., 2015, National assessment of nor'easter-induced coastal erosion hazards: mid- and northeast Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2015-1154, 41 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151154.

Birchler, J.J., Stockdon, H.F., Doran, K.S., Thompson, D.M., 2014, National Assessment of Hurricane-Induced Coastal Erosion Hazards: Northeast Atlantic Coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2014-1243, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20141243.

Doran, K.S., Birchler, J., Stockdon, H.F., Thompson, D.M., Morgan, K.L.M., Brenner, O.T., 2016, National assessment of hurricane-induced coastal erosion hazards: South Carolina through New Hampshire update: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7RF5S44.

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J., Weber, K.M., 2016, Beach slopes of Massachusetts: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7B8568F.

Doran, K.S., Long, J.W., Birchler, J.J.,, B., O.T., Hardy, M.W., Morgan, K.L.M., Stockdon, H.F., Torres, M.L., 2017, Lidar-derived beach morphology (dune crest, dune toe, and shoreline) for U.S. sandy coastlines: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7GF0S0Z.

Long, J.W., Henderson, R.E., Thompson, D.M., 2020, Forecasting future beach width-A case study along the Florida Atlantic coast: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019-1150, 20 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20191150.

Plant, N.G., Smith, K.E.L., Passeri, D.L., Smith, C.G., Bernier, J.C., 2018, Barrier-island and estuarine-wetland physical-change assessment after Hurricane Sandy: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1157, 45 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171157.

Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Palmsten, M.L., Van der Westhuysen, A., Doran, K.S., Snell, R.J., 2023, Operational forecasts of wave-driven water levels and coastal hazards for US Gulf and Atlantic coasts: Communications Earth & Environment, v. 4 no. 1, 169 p., doi: 10.1038/s43247-023-00817-2.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
ofr2014-1243_NE_erosion_hazards (probabilities of hurricane-induced erosion (collision, inundation and overwash) for each 1-km section of the Northeast Atlantic coast for category 1-4 hurricanes)
US_erosion_hazards (Probabilities of hurricane-induced erosion (collision, inundation and overwash) for each 1-km section of the Gulf of Mexico coast for category 1–5 hurricanes)
10CNT05_morphology.zip (Dune crest, dune toe, shoreline, beach width and beach slope for a lidar survey collected 20100524-20100710 in Rhode Island through Maine)

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