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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CCH06

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Support ACE:FRF LARC-5 Inlet Survey. Collect Beach GPS Profiles

Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle

Start Port/Location: Islip, NY

End Port/Location: Islip, NY

Start Date: 2013-06-20

End Date: 2013-06-26

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS

Information to be Derived: Beach Elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Fire Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.79703426 South: 40.52605421 West: -73.5253 East: -72.34011422

Platform(s):

photo of USACE LARC-5
USACE LARC-5

Publications

Brenner, O.T., Henderson, R.E., Hapke, C.J., Reynolds, B.J., 2018, Hurricane Sandy beach response and recovery at Fire Island, New YorkâShoreline, beach profile data, and breach shoreline data, October 2012 to October 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ANYQ8G.

Brenner, O.T., Lentz, E.E., Hapke, C.J., Henderson, R.E., Wilson, K.E., Nelson, T.R., 2018, Characterizing storm response and recovery using the beach change envelope: Fire Island, New York: Geomorphology, v. 300 no. Supplement C, pp. 189–202, doi: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2017.08.004.

Hapke, C.J., Nelson, T.R., Henderson, R.E., Brenner, O.T., Miselis, J.L., 2017, Morphologic evolution of the wilderness area breach at Fire Island, New York, 2012-15: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1116, 24 p., https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171116.

Henderson, R.E., Hapke, C.J., Brenner, O.T., Reynolds, B.J., 2017, Hurricane Sandy beach response and recovery at Fire Island, New York: Shoreline, beach profile data, and breach shoreline data: October 2012 to June 2016: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7G15Z17.

Henderson, R.H., Hapke, C.J., Brenner, O.T., Reynolds, B.J., 2015, Hurricane Sandy beach response and recovery at Fire Island, New York: Shoreline and beach profile data, October 2012 to October 2014: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 931, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds931.

van Ormondt, M., Nelson, T.R., Hapke, C.J., Roelvink, D., 2020, Morphodynamic modelling of the wilderness breach, Fire Island, New York. Part I: Model set-up and validation: Coastal Engineering, Coastal Engineering, v. 157, 103621 p., doi: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2019.103621.

Wilson, K., Lentz, E.E., Miselis, J.L., Safak, I., Brenner, O.T., 2019, A Bayesian Approach to Predict Sub-Annual Beach Change and Recovery: Estuaries and Coasts, Estuaries and Coasts, v. 42 no. 1, pp. 112–131, doi: 10.1007/s12237-018-0444-1.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
13CCH06-NL-pd-2 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data)
13CCH06-NL-pd-1 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles)

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