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

Field Activity 2017-013-FA

Identifier 2017-013-FA
Purpose Deploy and recover pressure sensors at overwash, map beach elevation
Equipment or personnel only. Data, if any, are managed under a different field activity.
Location Sandwich Town Neck Beach, Cape Cod Bay, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Summary data from pressure sensors recovered
Info derived pressure measurements, survey elevations
Comments 2 Pressure sensors in overwash zone, and 1 in air: 1090, 1091, 1092 Associated with 2016-052-FA, 2017-007-FA, 2017-001-FA, 2017-012-FA, 2017-013-FA, 2017-019-FA, 2017-025-FA, 2017-037-FA, 2017-040-FA. The data for all is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7B27T6P.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Itinerary
Start Woods Hole, MA 2017-03-13
End Woods Hole, MA 2017-03-15
Days in the field 1
Bounds
West -70.4908
East -70.42205817
North 41.78503467
South 41.73478262

Personnel

Organization Equipment or personnel support provided by
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Christopher R Sherwood
Crew members
Barry J Irwin
Scientist, Staff
Jonathan Borden
Scientist, Staff
Sandra M Brosnahan
Scientist, Staff
Eric D. Marsjanik
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Ellyn Montgomery
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Spectra Precision SP80 Navigation (no data reported)
Bottom platform Mooring (physical oceanography) (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity