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Field Activity Details for field activity 2023-319-FA

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Other ID: none

Status: Pending

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): Nancy Dewitt, Andrew Farmer, Chelsea Stalk

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

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: 2023-05-04

End Date: 2023-05-19

Equipment Used: Multibeam Bathymetry System, Castaway-CTD

Information to be Derived: Multibeam bathymetry and backscatter

Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:

Staff: Nancy DeWitt, Andrew Farmer

Affiliate Staff:

Notes:

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

Stalk, C.A., DeWitt, N.T., Levinson, S.C., and Miselis, J.L., 2024, Coastal Multibeam Bathymetry and Backscatter Data Collected in May 2023 From Seven Mile Island, New Jersey: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P13TUAJH.

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Data Acquired

Survey EquipmentSurvey InfoData Type(s)Data Collected
Multibeam Bathymetry System --- Multibeam
7Mile_2023_MBES_Backscatter (Processed acoustic intensity backscatter mosaic, derived from the 1-meter grid, provided as a 32-point GeoTIFF in WGS84 (G1150) ellipsoid)
7Mile_2023_MBES_xyz (Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (G1150) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 GEOID12B)
Castaway-CTD --- Sound Velocity

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