Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s): Hurricane Sandy - Linking Coastal Processes and Vulnerability – Fire Island Regional Study (AE03FJ6)
Principal Investigator(s): William Danforth, William Schwab
Affiliate Investigator(s): Steve Couch, USACE
Information Specialist(s): William Danforth
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sonar: Multibeam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Map the seafloor offshore Fire Island, NY as part of the post-Sandy research efforts
Vehicle(s):
Start Port/Location: Perth Amboy, NJ
End Port/Location: Perth Amboy, NJ
Start Date: 2014-01-01
End Date: 2014-03-31
Equipment Used: R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder, DGPS
Information to be Derived: seafloor depth and backscatter
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: seafloor depth and backscatter
Staff: William Danforth, Jane Denny, William Schwab
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Funding project is GX13LQ00FJ62B
Location:
Fire Island, New York, Long Island, Atlantic Ocean, United States
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 40.77568856 | South: 40.49894879 | West: -73.92150879 | East: -72.70233166 |
Platform(s):
 Shearwater - Alpine Ocean |
Denny, J.F., Danforth, W.W., Couch, S., and Schwab, W.C., 2015, Swath bathymetry collected offshore of Fire Island and western Long Island, New York in 2014, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-072-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7C827BX.
Schwab, W.C., Baldwin, W.E., Warner, J.C., List, J.H., Denny, J.F., Liste, M., and Safak, I., 2017, Change in morphology and modern sediment thickness on the inner-continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York between 2011 and 2014—Assessing the effect of hurricane impact: Marine Geology, v. 391, p. 48-64, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2017.07.010.
Schwab, W.C., Baldwin, W.E., and Denny, J.F., 2016, Assessing the impact of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on the morphology and modern sediment thickness on the inner continental shelf offshore of Fire Island, New York: U.S. Geologic Survey Open-File Report 2015-1238, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20151238.
Warner, J.C., Schwab, W.C., List, J.H., Safak, I., Liste, M., and Baldwin, W., 2017, Inner-shelf ocean dynamics and seafloor morphologic changes during Hurricane Sandy: Continental Shelf Research, v. 138, pp. 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2017.02.003.
| Title | Survey Equipment | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cruise log | R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder | Acquisition and processing logs maintained by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., during U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-072-FA offshore of southern Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort. |
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| R2Sonic 2024 multibeam echosounder | This system was used to acquire swath bathymetry and acoustic backscatter. | Multibeam | NYB_MB5m_2014 (5-meter swath bathymetric grid collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of western Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, Esri binary grid file format).) 2014-072-FA_NYB_Sonar5m (5-meter backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of western Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 32-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format).) 2014-072-FA_FI_Sonar5m (5-meter backscatter image collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, 32-bit continuous unsigned integer GeoTIFF format).) FI_MB5m_2014 (5-meter swath bathymetric grid collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and USGS mapping effort (UTM zone 18N, WGS 84, Esri binary grid file format).) |
| DGPS | DGPS navigation were collected during survey operations. (These data were collected by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., offshore of Fire Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort. The data reside with Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc.) | Navigation | 2014-072-FA_Alpine_Logs (Acquisition and processing logs maintained by Alpine Ocean Seismic Survey, Inc., during U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2014-072-FA offshore of southern Long Island, NY in 2014, as part of a collaborative U.S. Army Corp of Engineers and U.S. Geological Survey mapping effort.) |
