Field Activity 2018-049-FA

Identifier 2018-049-FA
Purpose To collect geologic framework information from inner shelf and inlet (where possible) for coastal-change studies
Location Little Egg Inlet, New Jersey, United States, Atlantic Ocean
Summary Occupied ~70 sites over 2 days (Oct 22-23, 2018 - JD 295-296) aboard the R/V Petrel. SEABOSS with SeaViewer HD video camera and 2 GoPro cameras (one oblique down on miniSEABOSS as usual, another on arm extended out and down-facing. GoPro was time synced regularly to UTC using Camera Studio software on AckBookPro. Calibration photos were taken to ensure that GoPros and Video were synced. Navigation was DGPS from the R/V Petrel (Hemisphere Vecor VS330 (WGS 84)). Antenna aft stbd side on wheelhouse ~3 meters to the deployment point. Logging Petrel DGPS to DataBridge CF car; and into ArcMap GPS via Plugable usb to serial adapter on AckBookPro (parallels Win10) - saving 1 second point as Esri shp. Offset to the sampler deployment spot (from GPS antenna to the extended block 18 feet aft; 5 feet port). This offset is NOT accounted for in the SEABOSS position.
Info derived surficial geology, etc
Comments Funding project is LQ00-GHY3000. This is a sampling survey to compliment the geophysical survey done in May 2018. Entries for this field activity are based on entries from Field Activity 2018-001-FA
Platform
R/V Petrel - Stockton University
Length: 36 feet.
Itinerary
Start Bass River, NJ 2018-10-21
End Bass River, NJ 2018-10-26
Days in the field 4
Bounds
West -74.45983887
East -74.22515869
North 39.56970507
South 39.4243

Personnel

Organization
384 Woods Hole Road
Quissett Campus
Woods Hole, MA02543-1598
(508) 548-8700
Principal investigators Walter Barnhardt
Crew members
(not identified)
Scientist, Staff
Seth Ackerman
Scientist, Staff
Wayne E Baldwin
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Seth Ackerman
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Imagery, Location-Elevation, Sampling
Data type: Photo, Video, Navigation, Geology

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SeaBOSS Surveys (biological), Experiments (biological), Species ID, Photo, Video, Geology, Biology 1
DGPS Navigation (no data reported)
SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera Video 1
GoPro camera Photo, Video 1

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2018-049-FA_samples SeaBOSS Grain-size analysis results and locations of sediment samples ollected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-049-FA (simplified point shapefile and CSV files) Seth Ackerman
2018-049-FA_VideoLines SeaViewer 6000 HD Sea-Drop video camera Videos and tracklines along which bottom video was collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-049-FA (MP4 video files and polyline shapefile) Seth Ackerman
2018-049-FA_photos GoPro camera Photographs and locations of bottom still imagery collected in Little Egg Inlet and offshore the southern end of Long Beach Island, NJ, during USGS Field Activity 2018-049-FA (JPEG images, point shapefile, and CSV file) Seth Ackerman

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity

Images collected during this field activity, from the Imagery Data System

127 images are associated with this activity.