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

Field Activity 2024-321-FA

Identifier 2024-321-FA
Alternate names FIM fieldwork
Purpose Field work to collect river cross-section bathymetry and GPS survey to develop flood inundation map.
Location Puerto Rico
Info derived Bathymetry, Maps
Comments Fieldwork in Puerto Rico with staff from the Water Science Centers at Oklahoma-Indiana-Kentucky Center and the Caribbean and Florida Center. May use kayak from Puerto Rico from Carribean-Florida Water Science Center.
Projects
Platform
on foot
survey conducted on foot
Vehicles
Rental Vehicle
Itinerary
Start Comerio, Puerto Rico 2024-11-17
End Caguas, Puerto Rico 2024-11-22
Days in the field 5
Bounds
West -67.44873092
East -65.54443359
North 18.64624514
South 17.67193877

Personnel

Organization
600 Fourth Street South
St. Petersburg, FL33701-4846
(727) 502-8000
Principal investigators Legna M Torres-Garcia
Crew members
Information specialist(s)
Legna M Torres-Garcia
Specialist, Information
Affiliate principal Justin Boldt, USGS-OKI; Jeff Frey USGS-OKI; Matthew Whitehead, USGS-OKI; Julieta Gomez-Fragoso, USGS-CFWSC, Melinda Lohmann, USGS-CFWSC; David Sumner, USGS-Southeast Region

Data types and categories

Data category: Location-Elevation
Data type: Benchmarks, Transects

Equipment used

Equipment Usage description Data types Datasets
Water Level Recorder Benchmarks (no data reported)
Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) DGPS Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles (no data reported)
GPS topographic survey buggy Benchmarks, Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)
GPS Pole Navigation, Profiles, Transects (no data reported)

Publications

Samples collected during this field activity