2017-321-FA (CMHRP activity #7542)

Field Activity 2017-321-FA

Identifier

2017-321-FA

Purpose

On going post-Sandy beach recovery assessment

Location

Fire Island, NY

Summary

Surveyed 15 cross-shore beach profiles, 4 alongshore transects, and East&West breach shorelines. Beach profile data available at https://coastal.er.usgs.gov/fire-island/research/sandy/beach-profiles.html

Info derived

Beach Elevation

Comments

Funding Account: GXMN00GGH0200

Projects

Hurricane Sandy Supplemental Funding (Miselis)

Platform

on foot

survey conducted on foot

Vehicles

Rental Vehicle

Itinerary

Start	Fire Island, NY	2017-05-23
End	Fire Island, NY	2017-05-26
Days in the field	3

Bounds

West	-73.34472671
East	-72.85692749
North	40.73932344
South	40.61537598

Personnel

Organization

USGS, St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center(SPCMSC)

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
Kathleen E Wilson	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	2m wheel used to survey 15 beach profiles and breach shorelines	Navigation, Profiles, Transects	(no data reported)
Ashtech Z-Xtreme DGPS	collected base and rover data	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