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

Field Activity 2022-008-FA

Identifier	2022-008-FA
Alternate names	CACO-02 2022
Purpose	To characterize the beach and nearshore morphology and evaluate the USGS Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast. Use of CoastCam camera station to visualize and map the beach and nearshore region to determine the types of bar morphologies, their persistence and temporal variability, and the relationship of these changes to wave and water-level conditions. Meteorlogical measurements will be made at the CoastCam location to supplement data on nearshore circulation processes, especially during the summer-early fall deployments that overlap with the shark behavior research.
Location	Marconi Beach, Cape Cod National Seashore, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Summary	Meteorological measurements and CoastCam imagery were taken at Marconi Beach, MA during 2022. The cameras were visited for regular maintenance to clean the camera lenses and change batteries. Unfortunately, the camera system went down during the first week of October. We are working to purchase a replacement system. Some gaps occur in the meteorological measurements due to battery failure and the sensor freezing during cold weather.
Info derived	Periodic trips to maintain and service CoastCam site and meteorological station at Marconi Beach on Cape Cod National Seashore as part of this ongoing project.
Comments	These are recurring trips to maintain CoastCam CACO-02 and weather station at Marconi Beach as part of this project. This FA shall cover events and data collected in calendar year 2022. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2021-019-FA.
Projects	Next-Generation Total Water Level and Coastal Change Forecast (WH)
Related activities	2021-019-FA: Project 2023-006-FA: Project 2024-002-FA: Project 2025-006-FA: Project 2026-003-FA: Project
Platform	on foot survey conducted on foot
Itinerary	Start Wellfleet, MA 2022-01-01 End Wellfleet, MA 2022-12-31 Days in the field 6 Activity events Hide Start date End date Description 2022-01-13 2022-01-13 1/13/2022 provides a short weather window to replace camera system batteries and conduct system checks at Marconi beach. Bo Bales, Alex Olson, and Erin Lyons will drive from MOF to conduct checks. 2022-01-26 2022-01-26 Jin-Si Over & Chris Sherwood conduct GPS survey met station at Marconi beach 2022-03-02 2022-03-02 Eric and Olivia went to Marconi to download met station data, replace met D-cell batteries, replace camera car battery, and clean camera lenses. 2022-04-29 2022-04-29 Eric and Olivia went to Marconi to install a bulkhead on the met station panel to convert it from D-cell batteries to a big battery. SD card was removed and data was downloaded. 2022-08-18 2022-08-18 Eric and Olivia changed out battery at met station and downloaded data. 2022-11-02 2022-11-02 Olivia and Bo visited met station, downloaded data, and replaced battery.
Bounds	West -69.96934891 East -69.95555878 North 41.89801806 South 41.88651741 Show or hide mapHide layers