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Field Activity Details for field activity 2015-312-FA

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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), Hurricane Sandy - Impacts to and Vulnerability of Coastal Beaches (AE03FBQ)

Principal Investigator(s): Cheryl Hapke

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Owen Brenner, Timothy Nelson, Billy Reynolds, David Thompson

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

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect nearshore bathymetry and beach profile elevation data to assess the impacts of Hurricane Sandy.

Vehicle(s): Rental Vehicle, White Dodge Pickup - White

Start Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

End Port/Location: Fire Island, NY

Start Date: 2015-05-04

End Date: 2015-05-22

Equipment Used: Other, Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR), Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS, Marimatech Echosounder

Information to be Derived: Bathymetry data and terrestrial-based light detection and ranging (T-lidar) elevation data

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Joseph Fredericks, Kyle Kelso

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2014-325-FA

Location:

Fire Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.7564086 South: 40.59046776 West: -73.3512 East: -72.8503418

Platform(s):

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

Publications

Brenner, O.T., Hapke, C.J., Lee, K.G., Kimbrow, D.R., 2016, Terrestrial-based lidar beach topography of Fire Island, New York, May 2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F7862DKH.

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.

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., Brenner, O.T., Henderson, R.E., Reynolds, B.J., Wilson, K.E., 2017, Coastal bathymetry data collected in May 2015 from Fire Island, New York- Wilderness breach and shoreface: U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 1049, https://doi.org/10.3133/ds1049.

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
Other --- --- ---
Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) --- LIDAR
20150518_FI_USGS_DEM.zip (Interpolated digital elevation model (DEM))
20150518_FI_USGS_XYZ.zip (Processed elevation point data)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS --- Benchmarks
Navigation
201505_Ground_Based_XYZ.zip (Ground-based xyz point data)
Marimatech Echosounder --- Single Beam
201505_Single_Beam_XYZ.zip (Single-beam xyz point data)
201505_Single_Beam_XYZ_Shoreface.zip (Shoreface single-beam xyz point data)
201505_Single_Beam_XYZ_Wilderness_Breach.zip (Wilderness breach single-beam xyz point data)
201505_Wilderness_Breach_DEM.zip (Wilderness breach DEM)
201505_Shoreface_DEM.zip (Shoreface DEM)

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