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Field Activity Details for field activity 2022-326-FA

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Other ID: DUNEX

Status: Completed

Organization(s): USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Funding Program(s): Coastal Sediment Availability and Flux - CSAF (GX.25.MN00.M0Y60.00)

Principal Investigator(s): Jennifer Miselis

Affiliate Investigator(s): Ian Conery, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Information Specialist(s): Noreen Buster, Nancy DeWitt, Arnell Forde

Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler

Scientific Purpose/Goals: Geophysical data to explore sub-seafloor changes in geology resulting from storms.

Vehicle(s): Ford F-250 Stone Grey

Start Port/Location: Duck, NC

End Port/Location: Duck, NC

Start Date: 2022-07-10

End Date: 2022-07-16

Equipment Used: GPS , Chirp 512i

Information to be Derived: Seafloor morphology (USACE); sub-seafloor geology (USGS)

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered: Successfully acquired 16 sub-bottom profile lines.

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Location:

USACE, Field Research Facility

Boundaries
North: 36.19026722 South: 36.17650312 West: -75.75321844 East: -75.74082832

Platform(s):

photo of USACE LARC-5
USACE LARC-5

Publications

Forde, A.S., Miselis, J.L., Conery, I., DeWitt, N.T., Buster, N.A., 2024, Chirp Sub-Bottom Profile Geophysical Data Collected in 2021 and 2022 From Duck, North Carolina: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1346BEP.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
GPS --- Navigation
Chirp 512i --- Sub Bottom Profiler

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