Field Activity 2021-315-FA

Identifier 2021-315-FA
Purpose The goal of this project is to assess sea turtle nesting response on different template designs for nourished beaches and how these differ from a "natural beach".
Location Palm Beach, Martin and Brevard Counties, FL
Info derived Beach elevation profiles and sea turtle nesting locations.
Comments This FAN covers multiple surveys for the same project. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2019-322-FA and 2020-313-FA.
Projects
Related activities
2019-322-FA: Project
2020-313-FA: Project
Platform
Honda SxS 700-4 UTV
Vehicles
Chevy Suburban Silver
Itinerary
Start St. Petersburg, FL 2021-05-17
End St. Petersburg, FL 2021-09-17
Days in the field 24
Activity events
Start date End date Description
2021-05-17 2021-05-21 RC Mickey will be on site to conduct the Jupiter/Juno (Martin/Palm Beach county) survey.
2021-05-24 2021-05-26 Dave will be on site to conduct the South Reach (Brevard county) survey.
2021-06-14 2021-06-16 Dave will be on site to conduct the South Reach (Brevard county) survey.
2021-06-21 2021-06-25 RC Mickey will be on site to conduct the Jupiter/Juno (Martin/Palm Beach county) survey.
2021-07-12 2021-07-16 Dave will be on site to conduct the Jupiter/Juno (Martin/Palm Beach county) survey.
2021-07-19 2021-07-21 RC Mickey will be on site to conduct the South Reach (Brevard county) survey.
2021-08-02 2021-08-06 RC Mickey will be on site to conduct the Jupiter/Juno (Martin/Palm Beach county) survey.
2021-08-09 2021-08-11 Dave will be on site to conduct the South Reach (Brevard county) survey.
2021-09-07 2021-09-09 RC Mickey will be on site to conduct the South Reach (Brevard county) survey.
2021-09-13 2021-09-17 Dave will be on site to conduct the Jupiter/Juno (Martin/Palm Beach county) survey.
Bounds
West -80.67260742
East -79.93103027
North 28.09136628
South 26.65727767

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators David M Thompson
Crew members
David M Thompson
Scientist, Staff
Rangley C Mickey
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
David M Thompson
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Karen Frutchey - USFWS Robbin Trindell - FWC Ping Wang - USF

Data types and categories

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

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
GPS Backpack Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
GPS Backpack Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
Ashtech ProFlex 800 GNSS Receiver Benchmarks, Navigation (no data reported)
GPS Backpack Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity