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Field Activity Details for field activity 13CCH09

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

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

Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt, Billy Reynolds

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Single Beam

Scientific Purpose/Goals: On going post-Sandy beach recovery assessment

Vehicle(s):

Start Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

End Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

Start Date: 2013-12-02

End Date: 2013-12-05

Equipment Used: Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Choke Ring Antenna, Single-beam Acoustic Sounder

Information to be Derived: Beach Elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Survey beach elevation along cross shore and alongshore transects using DGPS from Fire Island Light to Sandy Breach.

Staff: Billy Reynolds

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: No bathy were collected.

Location:

Fire Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.70497728 South: 40.61224853 West: -73.3461 East: -72.85967407

Platform(s):

photo of Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)

Unknown

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
13CCH09-NL-pd-1 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles)
13CCH09-NL-pd-2 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data)
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
No data was collected
Single-beam Acoustic Sounder --- Single Beam

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