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Field Activity Details for field activity 2021-319-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.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):

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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., 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.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData 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

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