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Field Activity Details for field activity 12CCH06

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Funding - Fire Island (AE03FJ6)

Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds

Data Type(s): Imagery: Photo, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Time Series: Mooring (physical oceanography)

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To quantify impact of Hurricane Sandy on the beach at FINS

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY

End Port/Location: Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY

Start Date: 2012-11-30

End Date: 2012-12-03

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Choke Ring Antenna, Camera, Digital, Hand Held

Information to be Derived: Topographic survey points of beach.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Pre- and Post- Hurricane Sandy Along-shore and Cross-shore beach profiles.

Staff: Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Additional Equipment Used: Batteries, Laptop
Used a Polaris ATV for along-shore profiles.

Location:

Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.76283218 South: 40.62534913 West: -73.0804 East: -72.9443627

Platform(s):

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., Brenner, O., Hehre, R., Reynolds, B.J., 2013, Coastal Change from Hurricane Sandy and the 2012-2013 Winter Storm Season: Fire Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1231, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20131231.

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
12CCH06-NL-pd-1 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles)
12CCH06-NL-pd-2 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data)
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Camera, Digital, Hand Held --- Photo

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