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

Field Activity 2024-310-FA

Identifier 2024-310-FA
Alternate names NASA Wallops
Purpose Collect bathymetry to initialize hydrodynamic model and acquire new seismic data to connect with existing offshore lines. This data will be used to help evaluate impacts of shoreface engineering activities on system ecogeomorphology.
Location Chincoteague Inlet; Wallops Island; Assawoman Island; Gargathy Inlet; shoreface; offshore; Virginia
Summary Field activity was completed on June 15, 2024. Shoreface singlebeam bathymetric data out to 4 m depth were acquired across the lengths of Wallops, Assawoman, and the emergent Gargatha islands, as well as along the northern tip of Metompkin Island and within the north and south channels of Gargathy Inlet. Adjacent MBES data were also acquired beyond 4 m depth, filling in bathymetry between areas covered by shallow singlebeam data and offshore MBES data acquired from earlier surveys. CHIRP seismic lines oriented parallel, perpendicular, and obliquely to shore were also acquired in tandem with MBES data. Additionally, seven sediment samples were acquired from Assawoman and Wallops islands, including one sample taken from an exposed marsh platform on the beach of Assawoman Island and six samples taken from the anthropogenically created lagoon and inlet complex on northern Wallops Island.
Info derived bathymetry, seismic profiles SubFAN identifiers: 24BIM01 = WVR1/Shark 24BIM02 = WVR2/Chum 24BIM03 = 512i Chirp Sled navigation/bathymetry 24BIM04 = Sallenger MBES and 512i Layback navigation All seismic acquisition will be collected under the larger FAN 2024-310-FA regardless of system.
Projects
Platform
Honda SxS 700-4 UTV
Personal Water Craft (Blue WVR2 - Chum)
Blue WaveRunner; R/V Chum
Personal Water Craft (White WVR1 - Shark)
White WaveRunner, R/V Shark
Sallenger
26' Parker
Twin Vee (Jabba Jaw)
22-ft Twin Vee This boat has a carrying capacity of up to 1500 pounds and up to 7 people and a shallow draft (9 inches empty). This boat's cat hull design results in a smoother ride in choppy water, at the expense of a slightly deeper draft. This boat is powered by two Yamaha 70hp motors.
UTV Trailer
Vehicles
Chevy Suburban Silver
Ford Expedition Green
Ford F-250 Stone Grey
Ford F-350 Dually White (GSA)
Itinerary
Start (port not specified) 2024-05-29
End (port not specified) 2024-06-18
Bounds
West -75.55503845
East -75.35041809
North 37.91820112
South 37.76311555
Marine operations Yes

Personnel

Organization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA)
Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Jennifer L MiselisDaniel J Ciarletta
Crew members
Billy J Reynolds
Scientist, Staff
Andrew S Farmer
Scientist, Staff
Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
Scientist, Staff
Sydney K Nick
Scientist, Staff
Benjamin A Galbraith
Scientist, Staff
Sabrina C Levinson
Scientist, Staff
Christopher C Bemelmans
Scientist, Staff
Information specialist(s)
Julie C Bernier
Specialist, Information
Chelsea A Stalk
Specialist, Information

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation, Seismics, Sonar
Data type: Navigation, Sub Bottom Profiler, Sound Velocity, Single Beam, Multibeam

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
SP80 GNSS Receiver Benchmarks, Navigation 2
GPS Backpack Navigation, Profiles, Transects 2
Valeport SWiFT SVP Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Castaway-CTD Sound Velocity (no data reported)
Chirp 512i Sub Bottom Profiler (no data reported)
Chirp 216 Sub Bottom Profiler 3
ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single Beam 2
Multibeam Bathymetry System Multibeam 2

Datasets

Datasets produced in this activity

Dataset name Equipment Description Dataset contact
2024-310-FA_nav SP80 GNSS Receiver Navigation data for the entire survey, 1000-shot-interval locations, start of line locations, and data dictionary Arnell S Forde
Wallops_Island_2024_ WGS84_UTM18N_Tracklines SP80 GNSS Receiver Single-beam bathymetry and beach elevation tracklines in WGS84 (G2139) UTM18N ellipsoid Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
Wallops_Island_2024_Beach_NAD83_ FIPS4502_NAVD88_G18_xyz GPS Backpack Beach elevation data points (xyz) in NAD83 FIPS4502 and NAVD88 (orthometric height) with respect to the GEOID18 model Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
Wallops_Island_2024_Beach_ WGS84_UTM18N_xyz GPS Backpack Beach elevation data points (xyz) in WGS84 (G2139) UTM18N ellipsoid Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
2024-310-FA_gis Chirp 216 Sub-bottom profile data geospatial files and data dictionary Arnell S Forde
2024-310-FA_segy Chirp 216 Digital chirp sub-bottom trace data Arnell S Forde
2024-310-FA_seisimag Chirp 216 Processed sub-bottom profile images Arnell S Forde
Wallops_Island_2024_SBES_NAD83_ FIPS4502_NAVD88_G18_xyz ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry data points (xyz) in NAD83 FIPS4502 and NAVD88 (orthometric height) with respect to the GEOID18 model Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
Wallops_Island_2024_SBES_ WGS84_UTM18N_xyz. ODOM-Echotrac CV-100 Single-beam bathymetry data points (xyz) in WGS84 (G2139) UTM18N ellipsoid Erin (Contractor) O Lyons
Wallops_2024_MBES_Backscatter Multibeam Bathymetry System Processed acoustic intensity backscatter mosaic, derived from the 1-meter grid, provided as a 32-point GeoTIFF in WGS84 (G2139) ellipsoid Christopher C Bemelmans
Wallops_2024_MBES_xyz Multibeam Bathymetry System Processed elevation point data (xyz) as derived from a 1-meter grid provided in both WGS84 (G2139) ellipsoid and NAD83 NAVD88 Virginia South State Plane Coordinate System GEOID18 Christopher C Bemelmans

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity