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Field Activity Details for field activity 2014-320-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s):

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s): Erika Lentz: USGS-Woods Hole

Information Specialist(s): Owen Brenner

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Profiles

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

Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle

Start Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

End Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

Start Date: 2014-09-08

End Date: 2014-09-11

Equipment Used: GPS Pole, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS

Information to be Derived: Beach Elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Surveyed 15 cross shore profiles, 6 alongshore beach transects, and breach shoreline

Staff: Owen Brenner

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 13CCH09

Location:

Fire Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.704977 South: 40.612249 West: -73.3461 East: -72.859674

Platform(s):

photo of on foot
on foot

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
GPS Pole --- Navigation
Profiles
Transects
No data was collected
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
2014-320-FA-NL-pd-2 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data)
2014-320-FA-NL-pd-1 (Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles)

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