Field Activity 13CCH02

Identifier 13CCH02
Purpose To quantify impact of Hurricane Sandy on the beach at Fire Island National Seashore (FINS).
Location Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY
Summary Pre- and Post- Hurricane Sandy Along-shore and Cross-shore beach profiles.
Info derived Topographic survey points of beach.
Comments Additional Equipment Used: Batteries, Laptop B. Irwin and J. Raphael are NPS staff. Used a Polaris ATV for along-shore profiles.
Itinerary
Start Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY 2013-02-10
End Fire Island National Seashore, Long Island, NY 2013-02-13
Bounds
West -73.4323
East -72.49717859
North 40.83082679
South 40.5802236
Topic 13
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Cheryl J Hapke
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Billy J Reynolds
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Time Series
Data type: Photo, Navigation, Mooring (physical oceanography)

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Choke Ring Antenna Benchmarks, Navigation (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 5
Camera, Digital, Hand Held Photo (no data reported)

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
13CCH02-NL-pd-1 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Fire Island, NY pre- and post- storm cross-shore profiles Cheryl J Hapke
13CCH02-NL-pd-2 Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Fire Island, NY pre- and post-storm shoreline data Cheryl J Hapke

Datasets compiled from multiple sources

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
Profile_Data Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Cross-shore profile data Owen T Brenner
Shoreline_Data Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS MHW shoreline data Owen T Brenner
Breach_Shorelines_Data Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Breach shoreline data Owen T Brenner

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity