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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-307-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Estuary and Marsh Geology - EMRG (Geomorphology) (GX.25.MN00.M1D20.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Christopher Smith

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Chelsea Stalk

Data Type(s): Sonar: Sound Velocity, Sonar: Single Beam, Location-Elevation: Navigation, Location-Elevation: Benchmarks

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To collect Single-beam bathymetry within Grand Bay and Point Au Chenes Bay, AL/MS

Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)

Start Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

End Port/Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Start Date: 2021-03-01

End Date: 2021-03-07

Equipment Used: Castaway-CTD, SBG Ellipse A Motion Sensor, ODOM-Echotrac CV-100, Tripods, SP90 GNSS Receiver, Choke Ring Antenna

Information to be Derived: Singlebeam bathymetry x,y,z soundings and bathymetry grids.

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected 188 SBES lines, 74 SV casts and 3 days worth of base station data.

Staff: Hunter Wilcox, Chelsea Stalk

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: 21CCT01 = Jet Ski = RV Shark (white) collecting Single beam bathymetry
21CCT02 = Jet Ski = RV Chum (blue) collecting Single beam bathymetry;

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2015-315-FA as a portion of the data collected will be a repeat of the 2015 survey.

Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-324-FA - original field effort which was postponed.

Location:

Grand Bay and Point Aux Chenes Bay, AL/MS

Boundaries
North: 30.42732018 South: 30.2790872 West: -88.5373 East: -88.30902148

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)

Publications

Stalk, C.S., Wilcox, H.S., Passeri, D.L., Smith, C.G., Smith, K.E.L., and Terrano, J.F., 2021, Single-beam bathymetry data collected in March 2021 from Grand Bay and Point Aux Chenes Bay, Mississippi/Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P93ZM9MK.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Castaway-CTD --- Sound Velocity
SBG Ellipse A Motion Sensor --- Single Beam
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 --- Single Beam
Grand_Bay_2021_SBES_xyz.zip (Single-beam bathymetry xyz data in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B)
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ SBES_xyz.zip (Single-beam bathymetry xyz data in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B)
Grand_Bay_Point_Aux_Chenes_ 2021_ShorelinePoints.zip (Shoreline points adapted from Terrano and Smith, 2021)
Grand_Bay_2021_ SBES_Tracklines.zip (Single-beam bathymetry tracklines in WGS84 (G1762) )
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ SBES_Tracklines.zip (Single-beam bathymetry tracklines in WGS84 (G1762) )
Grand_Bay_Point_Aux_Chenes_ 2021_Extent.zip (Polygon files representing extend of data coverage)
Grand_Bay_2021_ NAD83_NAVD88_G12A_DEM.zip (Bathymetry DEM, 10-m cell size in NAD83 NAVD88 Geoid 12A and the accompanying boundary shapefile)
Point_Aux_Chenes_2021_ NAD83_NAVD88_G12A_DEM.zip (Bathymetry DEM, 10-m cell size in NAD83 NAVD88 Geoid 12A and the accompanying boundary shapefile)
Tripods --- Mooring (physical oceanography)
Benchmarks
Navigation
SP90 GNSS Receiver --- Benchmarks
Navigation
Choke Ring Antenna --- Benchmarks
Navigation

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