Area of Operations: Fire Island, New York, United States, North America, North Atlantic
Dates: May 18, 2011 to June 09, 2011
Chief scientist: Bill Schwab
Objectives: Map nearshore/shoreface off Fire Island National Seashore.
Type of Activity: Sea floor mapping;
Information to be derived: Sea floor map;Bathymetric maps;
Summary: Area of inner shelf/lower shorface offshore of Fire Island, NY mapped using 234 kHz inteferometric sonar and 5 Hz-12 kHz chirp subbottom profiler (water depths >~8m)
Contact: Wayne Baldwin (wbaldwin@usgs.gov)
Related Links: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/project-pages/coastal_mass/
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