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Field Activity Details for field activity 2017-321-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 (Miselis) (GX.13.MN00.GGH02.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis

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

Information Specialist(s): Owen Brenner, Kathleen Wilson

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: 2017-05-23

End Date: 2017-05-26

Equipment Used: GPS Pole, Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS

Information to be Derived: Beach Elevation

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Surveyed 15 cross-shore beach profiles, 4 alongshore transects, and East&West breach shorelines. Beach profile data available at https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/fire-island/research/sandy/beach-profiles.html

Staff: Owen Brenner

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Funding Account: GXMN00GGH0200

Location:

Fire Island, NY

Boundaries
North: 40.73932344 South: 40.61537598 West: -73.34472671 East: -72.85692749

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.

Portals/Viewers

Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS Pole2m wheel used to survey 15 beach profiles and breach shorelinesNavigation
Profiles
Transects
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPScollected base and rover data Benchmarks
Navigation

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