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Field Activity Details for field activity 12BIM04

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Barrier Island Evolution Research - BIER Sedimentology (GX.17.MN00.F1F50.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Barrier Island Mapping Change

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

End Port/Location: Biloxi, MS

Start Date: 2012-07-20

End Date: 2012-08-04

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320, Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe, Choke Ring Antenna, TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor

Information to be Derived: Barrier Island Mapping Change

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Single-beam bathymetry

Staff: Kyle Kelso, Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

Location:

Chandeleur Islands, LA

Boundaries
North: 30.18701289 South: 29.30924614 West: -89.2405 East: -87.87819262

Platform(s):

photo of Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)
Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)

Publications

DeWitt, N.T., Bernier, J.C., Pfeiffer, W.R., Miselis, J.L., Reynolds, B.J., Wiese, D.S., Kelso, K.W., 2014, Coastal bathymetry and backscatter data collected in 2012 from the Chandeleur Islands, Louisiana: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 847, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds847.

Mickey, R.C., Long, J.W., Plant, N.G., Thompson, D.M., Dalyander, P.S., 2017, A methodology for modeling barrier island storm-impact scenarios: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2017-1009, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20171009.

Plant, N.G., Flocks, J., Stockdon, H.F., Long, J.W., Guy, K.K., Thompson, D.M., Cormier, J.M., Smith, C.G., Miselis, J.L., Dalyander, P.S., 2014, Predictions of barrier island berm evolution in a time-varying storm climatology: Journal of Geophysical Research F: Earth Surface, v. 119 no. 2, pp. 300–316, doi: 10.1002/2013jf002871.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
12BIM04_SBB_tracklines_NAD83 (Single-beam navigation tracklines)
Knudsen Marine Echosounder 320 --- Single Beam
12BIM04_SBB_03_ITRF00_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Single-beam Bathymetry: ITRF00)
12BIM04_SBB_03_NAD83_MLLW_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Single-beam Bathymetry: NAD83_MLLW)
Chandeleurs_2012_50_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_DEM (bathymetric (single-beam and swath) grid in Geotiff format, 50-m resolution)
12BIM04_SBB_03_NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID09_xyz (2012 ASCII Point Files from Single-beam Bathymetry: NAD83_NVD88_GEOID09)
Data Series 847 GIS (Includes tracklines (swath (IFB), single-beam (SBB)), Base station locations, USGS Lidar extent, Backscatter mosaic, and bathymetric (swath and single-beam) grid.)
Valeport Mini Sound Velocity Probe --- Sound Velocity
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
TSS DMS-05 Motion Sensor --- Interferometric
Single Beam
No data was collected

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