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Field Activity Details for field activity 2018-323-FA

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Other ID: subFANS = 18CCT05, 18CCT06, 18CCT07, 18CCT08

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): NFWF Monitoring Hurricane Sandy Beach and Marsh Resilience (GR.19.MN00.GSM30.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Nancy DeWitt, Joseph Fredericks, Billy Reynolds, Chelsea Stalk

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Benchmarks, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Single Beam, Sonar: Sound Velocity

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Assess the restoration efforts by providing baseline bathymetry using combination of single-beam and multibeam and sub bottom profiles that traverse the surf zone by beach launching the 512i.

Vehicle(s): Chevy Suburban Silver, Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA), Rental Vehicle

Start Port/Location: Stone Harbor Marina, Stone Harbor, New Jersey

End Port/Location: Stone Harbor Marina, Stone Harbor, New Jersey

Start Date: 2018-09-04

End Date: 2018-09-25

Equipment Used: Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver, Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver, Choke Ring Antenna, Water Level Recorder, Other, Applanix POS-MV DGPS/IMU, GPS , Other, Chirp 512i, ODOM-Echotrac CV-100, Other, Multibeam Bathymetry System

Information to be Derived: Single beam xyz data (##); sound velocity casts (##); multibeam bathymetry xyz data (##), seismic sub bottom profiles (##); and GPS base station and GPS boat files used to process for DGPS.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: None yet

Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Andrew Farmer, Joseph Fredericks, Jennifer Miselis, Billy Reynolds, Chelsea Stalk, Anastasios Stathakopoulos, Lance Thornton, Hunter Wilcox

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: R/V Sallenger seismic will be the overall FAN; R/V Sallenger MBB = 18CCT05, R/V Shark SBB = subFAN 18CCT06; R/V Chum SBB = subFAN 18CCT07, Sled = subFAN 18CCT08

Location:

7 Mile Island, New Jersey

Boundaries
North: 39.11706082 South: 39.01815109 West: -74.7908465 East: -74.69601981

Platform(s):

photo of Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
photo of Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
photo of Sallenger
Sallenger

Publications

Buster, N.A., Miselis, J.L., Wei, E.A., Forde, A.S., 2025, Assessment of Active Sand Volumes at Rockaway Beach and Fire Island in New York and Seven Mile Island in New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey Data Report 1211, https://doi.org/10.3133/dr1211.

Farmer, A.S., Fredericks, J.J., Reynolds, B.J., Miselis, J.L., 2019, Coastal multibeam bathymetry data collected in 2018 offshore of Seven Mile Island, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9BSJHVL.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Ashtech ProFlex 500 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Water Level Recorder --- Benchmarks
Other --- --- ---
Applanix POS-MV DGPS/IMU --- Navigation
GPS --- Navigation
Other --- --- ---
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 --- Single Beam
Other --- --- ---
Multibeam Bathymetry System --- Multibeam
Seven_Mile_Island_2018_MBES_ WGS84_UTM18N_xyz (The MBES soundings in WGS84 UTM18N (ellipsoid height) realization 1762)
Seven_Mile_Island_2018_MBES_ NAD83_NAVD88_GEOID12B_xyz (The MBES soundings (xyz) in NAD83 and NAVD88 (ellipsoid height) with respect to the GEOID12B model)

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