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.25.MN00.M0Y60.00)
Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis, Emily Wei
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s): Billy Reynolds, Chelsea Stalk
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Sonar: Multibeam, Sonar: Sound Velocity
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Multibeam shoreface mapping in support of beach and dune monitoring
Vehicle(s): Ford F-350 Dually Grey (GSA)
Start Port/Location: Rockaway Beach, NY
End Port/Location: Rockaway Beach, NY
Start Date: 2021-06-14
End Date: 2021-06-30
Equipment Used: Grab Sampler, SP90 GNSS Receiver, Multibeam Bathymetry System, Castaway-CTD, Valeport MiniSVS, Valeport SVP
Information to be Derived: Seafloor depth, surficial sediment
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: During this survey, a total of 159 Multibeam Bathymetry and associated Backscatter lines were acquired along with 106 Sound Velocity Casts and 33 Ponar sediment Grabs.
Staff: Billy Reynolds, Chelsea Stalk, Emily Wei
Affiliate Staff:
Notes: Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-333-FA
Location:
Rockaway Beach, NY, United States, Atlantic Ocean
| Boundaries | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| North: 40.61196925 | South: 40.53099105 | West: -73.95093262 | East: -73.7519449 |
Platform(s):
 Sallenger |
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.
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., Reynolds, B.J., Wei, E.A., Miselis, J.L., 2022, Coastal Bathymetry and Backscatter Data Collected in June 2021 from Rockaway Peninsula, New York: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9HNK9CJ.
| Survey Equipment | Survey Info | Data Type(s) | Data Collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grab Sampler | --- | Biology Geology | |
| SP90 GNSS Receiver | --- | Benchmarks Navigation | |
| Multibeam Bathymetry System | --- | Multibeam | Rockaway_2021_MBES_xyz (Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B ) |
| Castaway-CTD | --- | Sound Velocity | |
| Valeport MiniSVS | --- | Sound Velocity | Rockaway_2021_MBES_Backscatter (Processed acoustic intensity backscatter mosaic, derived from the 1-meter grid, provided as an 8-point GeoTIFF in WGS84 (G1762) ellipsoid ) |
| Valeport SVP | --- | Sound Velocity |
