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

Field Activity 2016-336-FA

Identifier 2016-336-FA
Purpose Ongoing post-Sandy beach recovery assessment
Location Fire Island, NY
Summary Collected 14 cross shore beach profiles that can be viewed online at https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/fire-island/research/sandy/beach-profiles.html Collected alongshore beach elevation data that along with the profile data will be made available online at https://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/0931/index.html.
Info derived Cross shore beach profiles and alongshore elevation data.
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
Rental Vehicle
Itinerary
Start Fire Island, NY 2016-06-14
End Fire Island, NY 2016-06-17
Bounds
West -73.3461
East -72.85967407
North 40.70497728
South 40.61224853

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jennifer L Miselis
Crew members
Owen T Brenner
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Owen T Brenner
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Erika Lentz: USGS-Woods Hole

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Navigation, Profiles

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Pole Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data expected)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation 3

Datasets

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