Other ID: none
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Funding Program(s): Other (Other)
Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Arnell Forde, Owen Brenner
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles, Location-Elevation: Transects, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Single Beam
Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect nearshore bathymetry and sub-surface geology data to assess the impacts of Hurricane Sandy.
Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle, Excursion - White
Start Port/Location: Fire Island, NY
End Port/Location: Fire Island, NY
Start Date: 2014-06-09
End Date: 2014-07-12
Equipment Used: ODOM-Echotrac CV-100, Choke Ring Antenna, Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver, Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver, GPS Pole, Collapsible Tripod, Other, Generic - Echosounder, GPS , Chirp 512i
Information to be Derived: Bathymetry, geophysical data
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected nearshore single-beam bathymetry, 106 sub-bottom profiles, and 15 cross shore elevation profiles.
Staff: Jennifer Miselis, Owen Brenner, Mark Erik Hansen, Cheryl Hapke, Billy Reynolds, David Thompson, Other
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: USACE will provide equipment and collect seismic data.
Location:
Fire Island, NY
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 40.88527529 | South: 40.47356668 | West: -73.7138 | East: -72.59765625 |
Platform(s):
 Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark) |  USACE LARC-5 |
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.
Forde, A.S., Miselis, J.L., Buster, N.A., 2024, Chirp Sub-Bottom Profile Geophysical Data Collected in 2014 From Fire Island, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13TMXXY.
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.
Nelson, T.R., Miselis, J.L., Hapke, C.J., Wilson, K.E., Henderson, R.E., Brenner, O.T., Reynolds, B.J., Hansen, M.E., 2016, Coastal bathymetry data collected in June 2014 from Fire Island, New York- the wilderness breach and shoreface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1007, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1007.
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.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 | --- | Single Beam | |
| Choke Ring Antenna | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
| Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
| Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
| GPS Pole | --- | Navigation Profiles Transects | No data was collected |
| Collapsible Tripod | --- | Benchmarks Navigation Profiles Transects | No data was collected |
| Other | --- | --- | --- |
| Generic - Echosounder | --- | Single Beam | 201406_Single_Beam_XYZ.zip (Single-beam XYZ point data) 201406_Single_Beam_XYZ_Wilderness_Breach.zip (Wilderness breach single-beam XYZ point data) 201406_Single_Beam_XYZ_Shoreface.zip (Shoreface single-beam XYZ point data) 201406_Wilderness_Breach_DEM.zip (Wilderness breach DEM, 25-m cell size.) 201406_Ground_Based_XYZ.zip (Ground-based XYZ point data) 201406_Shoreface_DEM.zip (Shoreface DEM, 50-m cell size.) |
| GPS | --- | Navigation | 2014-303-FA_nav (Navigation data for the entire survey, 1000-shot-interval locations, start of line locations, and data dictionary) |
| Chirp 512i | --- | Sub Bottom Profiler | 2014-303-FA_gis (Sub-bottom profile data geospatial files and data dictionary) 2014-303-FA_segy (Digital chirp sub-bottom trace data) 2014-303-FA_seisimag (Processed sub-bottom profile images) |
