Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: U.S. Geological Survey
Publication_Date: 2015
Title:
Locations of photographs acquired using a SEABed Observation and Sampling System (SEABOSS) within Barnegat Bay New Jersey by the U.S. Geological Survey in 2012, and 2013 (Esri point shapefile, Geographic, WGS 84)
Edition: 1.0
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Data Series
Issue_Identification: 937
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center, Woods Hole, MA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey, Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.3133/ds937
Online_Linkage:
Online_Linkage: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0937/
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Brian D. Andrews
Originator: Jennifer L. Miselis
Originator: William W. Danforth
Originator: Barry J. Irwin
Originator: Charles R. Worley
Originator: Emile M. Bergeron
Originator: Dann S. Blackwood
Publication_Date: 2015
Title:
Marine geophysical data collected in a shallow back-barrier estuary: Barnegat Bay, New Jersey
Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Data Series
Issue_Identification: 937
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Reston, VA
Publisher: U.S. Geological Survey
Online_Linkage: http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/ds937
Description:
Abstract:
Water quality in the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary along the New Jersey coast is the focus of a multidisciplinary research project begun in 2011 by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)in partnership with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. This narrow estuary is the drainage for the Barnegat Watershed and flushed by just three inlets connecting it to the Atlantic Ocean, is experiencing degraded water quality, algal blooms, loss of seagrass, and increases in oxygen-depletion events, seaweed, stinging nettles, and brown tide. The scale of the estuary and the scope of the problems within it necessitate a multidisciplinary approach that includes characterizing its physical characteristics (for example, depth, magnitude and direction of tidal currents, distribution of seafloor and subseafloor sediment) and modeling how the physical characteristics interact to affect the estuary's water quality. Scientists from USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program offices in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and St. Petersburg, Florida, began mapping the seafloor of the Barnegat Bay-Little Egg Harbor estuary in November 2011 and completed in September 2013. With funding from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and logistical support from the USGS New Jersey Water Science Center, they collected data with a suite of geophysical tools, including swath bathymetric sonar for measuring seafloor depth, a sidescan sonar for collecting acoustic-backscatter data (which provides information about seafloor texture and sediment type), subbottom profiler for imaging sediment layers beneath the floor of the estuary, and sediment samples with bottom photographs for ground validation of the acoustic data. 2011-041-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2011-041-FA 2012-003-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2012-003-FA 2013-014-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-014-FA 2013-030-FA:
http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/operations/ia/public_ds_info.php?fa=2013-030-FA
Purpose:
The purpose of this shapefile is to record the geographic locations where bottom photographs were acquired within Barnegat Bay, New Jersey to ground-validate the marine geophysical (acoustic) data. In addition, the "Hyperlink" attribute in this shapefile records the pathway to the bottom photographs in JPEG format for each record in the shapefile.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20120410
Ending_Date: 20130918
Currentness_Reference:
Ground condition of SEABOSS sampling dates at the end of three surveys, 20120410-20120412, 20130328-20130329, 20130918-20130918. No photographs were collected during 2011-041-FA.
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.305617
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -74.050009
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 40.059391
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 39.510267
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Metadata Identifier
Theme_Keyword: USGS:12d6fc2d-9319-44f2-a6e2-9fbc1a0ef8c7
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Theme_Keyword: U.S. Geological Survey
Theme_Keyword: USGS
Theme_Keyword: Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Theme_Keyword: Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Theme_Keyword: RV Rafael
Theme_Keyword: bottom photographs
Theme_Keyword: marine geology
Theme_Keyword: SEABOSS
Theme_Keyword: JPEG
Theme_Keyword: shapefile
Theme_Keyword: ground-truth
Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2012-003-FA
Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2013-014-FA
Theme_Keyword: field activity serial number 2013-030-FA
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: oceans
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: location
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: USGS Thesaurus
Theme_Keyword: navigational data
Theme_Keyword: underwater photography
Theme_Keyword: geospatial datasets
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
Place_Keyword: United States of America
Place_Keyword: State of New Jersey
Place_Keyword: Barnegat Bay
Place_Keyword: Metedeconk River
Place_Keyword: Mantoloking
Place_Keyword: Toms River
Place_Keyword: Forked River
Place_Keyword: Barnegat Inlet
Place_Keyword: Tuckerton
Place_Keyword: Little Egg Harbor
Place_Keyword: Little Egg Inlet
Stratum:
Stratum_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Stratum_Keyword: sea floor
Stratum_Keyword: seafloor
Temporal:
Temporal_Keyword_Thesaurus: none
Temporal_Keyword: 2012
Temporal_Keyword: 2013
Access_Constraints: none
Use_Constraints: none
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Brian Andrews
Contact_Organization: U.S. Geological Survey
Contact_Position: Geographer
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical address
Address: 384 Woods Hole Rd.
City: Woods Hole
State_or_Province: MA
Postal_Code: 02543-1598
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 508-548-8700 x2348
Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 508-457-2310
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: bandrews@usgs.gov
Browse_Graphic:
Browse_Graphic_File_Name: BarnBayBotPhotos.jpg
Browse_Graphic_File_Description:
Thumbnail image of locations of bottom photographs collected with Barnegat Bay, NJ. The file is located in the compressed zip file.
Browse_Graphic_File_Type: JPEG
Data_Set_Credit:
Please recognize the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) as the source of this information.
Native_Data_Set_Environment:
Microsoft Windows Vista Version 6.1 (Build 7601) Service Pack 1; ESRI ArcCatalog 9.3.1.4095
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: D. Blackwood
Originator: K. Parolski
Publication_Date: 2001
Title: Seabed observation and sampling system
Edition: 1.0
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Sea Technology
Issue_Identification: v. 42, no 2, p. 39-43