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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-318-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Completed

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

Funding Program(s): Coastal Sediment Availability and Flux - CSAF (GX.24.MN00.M0Y60.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Emily Wei, Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s):

Information Specialist(s): Chelsea Stalk

Data Type(s): Sonar: Sound Velocity, Sonar: Multibeam, Sampling: Geology

Scientific Purpose/Goals: To assess barrier island and shoreface resilience after Hurricane Sandy.

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

Start Port/Location: Cape May, NJ

End Port/Location: Cape May, NJ

Start Date: 2021-05-17

End Date: 2021-05-30

Equipment Used: Multibeam Bathymetry System, Grab Sampler, Castaway-CTD

Information to be Derived: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter, grain size of sediment grab samples

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Collected multibeam bathymetry and 33 ponar sediment grab samples.

Staff: Emily Wei, Chelsea Stalk, Andrew Farmer

Affiliate Staff:

Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2020-311-FA

Location:

Seven-Mile Island, New Jersey, Cape May

Boundaries
North: 39.12414268 South: 38.99902114 West: -74.85038996 East: -74.59277987

Platform(s):

photo of Sallenger
Sallenger

Publications

Everhart, C.S., Wei, E.A., and Miselis, J.L., 2022, Grain-size data from sediment samples at Seven Mile Island, New Jersey and Rockaway Peninsula, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9FH8ZJW.

Stalk, C.A., Farmer, A.S., Wei, E.A., and Miselis, J.L., 2022, Coastal multibeam bathymetry and backscatter data collected in May 2021 from Seven Mile Island, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9M2EQIR.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Multibeam Bathymetry System --- Multibeam
7Mile_2021_MBES_xyz.zip (Processed elevation point data as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B)
7Mile_2021_MBES_Backscatter.zip (Processed acoustic intensity backscatter mosaic, derived from the 1-meter grid, provided as a 32-point GeoTIFF in WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid )
Grab Sampler --- Biology
Geology
Castaway-CTD --- Sound Velocity

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