1. Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources
  2. Geoscience Data System

Field Activity 2012-026-FA

Identifier 2012-026-FA
Purpose Install water-level recorders on Chandeleur Islands
Location Gulf of America (Gulf of Mexico), North America, North Atlantic;, Chandeleur Islands
Summary Chandeleur Islands berm studies. Deployed four buried pressure sensors in shallow wells, and one atmos. pressure sensor on radio tower. Took photos surface sediment samples at four wellsites.
Info derived Time series data;Grain size analysis;
Comments Project = BERM/Chandeleur Study, BERM/Chandeleur Study
Platform
Halimeda
Itinerary
Start Biloxi, MS 2012-07-09
End Biloxi, MS 2012-07-13
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -88.9948
East -88.67065
North 30.09761
South 29.78345

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Patrick DickhudtChristopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Patrick Dickhudt
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Patrick Dickhudt
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Chris Smith, USGS St. Petersburg
Affiliate staff Nancy Dewitt, USGS St. Pete Chris Reich, USGS St. Pete Kyle Kelso, USGS St. Pete

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
Digital camera Photo (no data reported)
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
Pressure Mooring (physical oceanography) 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
data from 2012-026-FA Pressure All data from Chandeleur Island BIER program Ellyn Montgomery